Chrysobalanus
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Chrysobalanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or shrubs, with coriaceous, entire or undulate-margined leaves, and small, white or greenish, perfect flowers in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. Calyx with a campanulate or turbinate tube and a 5-lobed limb, the lobes imbricated, nearly equal. Petals 5, deciduous. Stamens numerous, with slender filaments. Ovary inferior, sessile, 1-celled; ovules 2, erect; style filiform, basal or lateral. Drupe pulpy, with a hard 5-6-ridged stone. [Greek, golden date.] About 3 species, 2 of them American, the other African. Type species Chrysobalanus Icaco L.