Zanthoxylum coriaceum A.Rich.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rutaceae
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Scientific Name
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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.
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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.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Bimini Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Grand Cayman Cayman Islands South America| West Indies|