Licaria parvifolia (Lam.) Kosterm.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Lauraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Tree to 15 m tall; bark dark gray to brown, lenticellate, aromatic, peeling off in irregular plates; branches nearly cylindrical, ferruginous tomentose, lenticellate or smooth. Leaf blades aromatic, 5-14 x 1-3.7 cm, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic when young, coriaceous, reticulate-veined, ferruginouspubescent, but becoming glabrous with age, the apex obtuse to acuminate, the base obtuse, sometimes slightly unequal, the margins entire; petioles 6-10 mm long. Rowers ferruginous-tomentose, in short axillary racemes; hypanthium 1.5-1.7 mm long, tepals ovate, 0.5-0.7 mm long; stamens 3, the anthers 2-celled, each opening by an uplifted valve. Fruit cupule nearly woody, 5- 7 mm wide, obconical, double-rimmed at apex, the fruit ellipsoid, glabrous, 10-15 mm long.
Distribution and Ecology - Occasional in moist forests. Bordeaux Mountain (A4696). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; probably in Hispaniola (fide Lamarck, 1792), Puerto Rico (including Vieques), and the Lesser Antilles.
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Discussion
Laurus salicifolius Sw., Fl. Ind. Occid. 2: 709. 1798. Acrodiclidium salicifolium (Sw.) Griseb., Fl. Brit. W . I. 280. 1860. Licaria salicifolia (Sw.) Kosterm., Recueil Trav. Bot. Neerl. 34: 597. 1937.