Schoepfia
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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
Schoepfiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire, usually drying blackish and fragile. Flowers bisexual, usually heterostylous, in axillary racemes or fascicles; bracteoles connate into an epicalyx; calyx cup-shaped, 4-lobed, adnate to the base of ovary; corolla tubular, bell-shaped to urn-shaped, 4-6-lobed; stamens as many as the corolla lobes, the filaments short, adnate to the corolla tube; ovary partially immersed in the disk, 3-locular, the locules usually with 1 ovule, the style slender, short, the stigma capitate to 3-lobed. Fruit a 1-seeded drupe, subtended by a cup-shaped epicalyx and crowned by an annular calyx scar.
Distribution and Ecology - A genus of 23 species, 19 of which are native to tropical America; the others are native to the Old World tropics.