Erythroxylum confusum Britton

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Erythroxylaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Erythroxylum confusum Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - A tree, 4-8 m. high, with a trunk-diameter of 1 dm. or more, the pale bark fissured. Leaves obovate or oblong-obovate, rather firm in texture, 3-7 cm. long, 3 cm. wide or less, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, dull-green above, pale-green beneath, not areolate, or but faintly so, not prominently reticulate-veined, the petioles 4-9 mm. long; stipules lanceolate, 2-4 mm. long; pedicels fascicled in the axils, or some of them solitary, shorter than the petioles; calyx about 2 mm. long, cleft to about the middle, the ovate-lanceolate lobes acute; petals oblong, obtuse, about 3 mm. long, the ligule about one-third as long as the blade, its lobes acute; drupes oblong, red, somewhat longer than the pedicels.

  • Distribution

    Rocky coppices, scrub-lands and palmetto-lands, Andros, Mangrove Cay, New Providence and Great Exuma: Cuba; Jamaica. Obovate leaved Kuythroxylos.

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