Celtis

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Cannabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Celtis

  • Description

    Genus Description - Shrubs, small trees, or lianas, armed or unarmed. Leaves alternate, simple, usually serrate or less often crenate or entire, petiolate; stipules minute and early deciduous. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual or sometimes bisexual, the staminate flowers in axillary cymose clusters, the pistillate solitary or a few in axillary cymes; calyx of free sepals; stamens as many as the sepals, inserted in the calyx tube, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary superior, l-locular, with a solitary, apically pendulous ovule, the styles 2. Fruit a fleshy to leathery drupe.

  • Distribution

    A genus of about 80 species, mostly from the Northern Hemisphere and southern Africa.

    Africa| Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|