Guapira

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

• Family

  Nyctaginaceae

• Scientific Name

  Guapira

• Description

  Genus Description - Dioecious trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite. Flowers unisexual, small, light-colored, in terminal corymbs; bracteoles minute, persistent; Staminate perianth bell-shaped; stamens 6-8, exserted, the filaments connate at base into a tube; pistillode reduced. Pistillate perianth tubular to bell-shaped; staminodes smaller than the ovary. Anthocarp fleshy without glands, the endocarp hard, striate.