Zanthoxylum coriaceum A.Rich.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Rutaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Zanthoxylum coriaceum A.Rich.

  • Description

    Species Description - A prickly aromatic shrub or small tree up to 7 m. high, the old wood bearing many corky conic cushions. Leaves 2 dm. long or less, glabrous, mostly evenly pinnate; leaflets 4-13, obovate or oblong-obovate, 2-6.5 cm. long, obtuse, emarginate or bluntly acuminate at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, dark-green and shining above, pale-green and often prickly beneath; cymes terminal, rarely axillary; flowers yellowish-white; sepals, petals and stamens 3; ovary 3-carpellary; petals of the pistillate flowers about 4 mm. long, a little larger than those of the staminate; follicles subglobose to ellipsoid, 5-6 mm. long, apiculate, brown, rough; seeds 1 in each follicle, subglobose, black, shining, 3-4 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coppices or sometimes in the white-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to North Bimini, Caicos and Inagua : Florida : Cuba ; Grand Cayman and Hispaniola. Referred by Dolley and Hitchcock to Zanthoxy lumemarginatum Sw. Hercules' Club. Doctor's Club.

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