Clerodendrum L.
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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
Verbenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Trees, erect shrubs, or less often scandent shrubs or lianas, sometimes spiny at the petiole base. Leaves simple, opposite or verticillate, petiolate, with entire or dentate margins. Flowers showy, bisexual, zygomorphic, pedicellate, in axillary cymes or in terminal panicles; calyx bell-shaped or tubular, truncate, 5-lobed or 5-parted; corolla 5-merous, trumpet-shaped, with spreading limb; stamens 4, the filaments in 2 pairs of unequal length, inserted in the tube, long-exserted; ovary imperfectly 4-locular, each locule with a single ovule, the style slender with a capitate stigma. Fruit drupaceous, globose to ovoid, 4-lobed or 4-sulcate, with 4 pyrenes often coherent in pairs.
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Distribution
A genus of about 400 species, most of which are native to the Old World tropics.
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|