Haematoxylum
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Caesalpiniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or shrubs, with yellow wood, evenly pinnate leaves, the leaflets obcordate, the spinescent stipules persistent or deciduous, the showy yellow minutely bracted flowers in loose axillary racemes. Calyx-tube very short, its 5 segments imbricated, somewhat unequal. Petals 5, oblong, spreading, somewhat unequal. Stamens 10, distinct; filaments pilose at the base; anthers all alike. Ovary short-stipitate, 2-3-ovuled; style filiform; stigma terminal, small. Pod flat, membranous, oblong or lanceolate, not dehiscent along the sutures, but splitting through the middle of the valves. Seeds transverse, oblong; endosperm none; cotyledons 2-lobed. [Greek, bloodwood.] Two known species, the following typical.