Zanthoxylum
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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
Rutaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Dioecious shrubs or trees, very often armed with conical prickles; bark usually aromatic. Leaves alternate, pinnately compound, trifoliolate or unifoliolate; leaflets with numerous translucent oil glands, with entire or crenate margins; stipules wanting. Rowers unisexual, actinomorphic, 3-5-merous, minute, in axillary or terminal panicles or in congested axillary cymes; calyx deeply lobed, the sepals persistent or deciduous; corolla of free, valvate petals or wanting; stamens 3-5, the filaments free; nectary disk subtending carpels; gynoecium of 1-5 free or basally connate carpels, these immersed in receptacle or stipitate. Fruit of 1-5 follicles, each carrying a single seed.
Distribution and Ecology - A genus of 250-300 species, of worldwide distribution.