Citharexylum Mill.

• Authority

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

• Family

  Verbenaceae

• Scientific Name

  Citharexylum Mill.

• Description

  Genus Description - Shrubs or trees; branches usually 4-angled. Leaves opposite or verticillate, petiolate, with entire to serrate margins, usually with pair of glands at base or on petiole. Rowers bisexual, pedicellate, in axillary or terminal racemes; calyx tubular, truncate or 5-lobed; corolla 5(-6)-merous, funnel- or trumpet-shaped, the lobes spreading; stamens 4(-5), the filaments in 2 pairs of unequal length, inserted on the upper half of the tube, the fifth stamen usually reduced to a staminode; ovary 4-locular (sometimes imperfectly so), each locule with a single ovule, the style slender, the stigma bifid. Fruit drupaceous, fleshy, with 2 pyrenes, each containing 2 seeds; fruiting calyx cupular and hardened.