Zanthoxylum flavum Vahl
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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 - An unarmed tree, reaching a maximum height of about 12 m. with a trunk about 5 dm. in diameter, usually smaller, sometimes shrubby, the light grey bark nearly smooth, the twigs finely stellate-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Leaves 1-2.5 dm. long, odd-pinnate, finely Btellate-canescent when young; leaflets 3-11, mostly 5 or 7, subcoriaceous, ovate or lanceolate to elliptic, very nearly sessile, obtuse or acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, crenate or nearly entire, pellucid-punctate; panicles terminal, many-flowered, 5-15 cm. long; pedicels and rachis stellate-canescent; calyx about 1.5 mm. broad; petals 2.5-4 mm. long; staminate flowers with 5, rarely 4 stamens about as long as the petals; pistillate flowers -with a glandular-punctate ovary and short styles; follicles obovoid, 5-9 mm. long; seeds black, shining, 4-5 mm. long.
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Discussion
The occurrence of Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis L. in the Bahamas as recorded by Dolley is extremely doubtful; both Z. coriaceum and Caesalpinin bahamcnsis are locally known through the archipelago as "Hercules' Club."
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Distribution
White-lands and low coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to (Grand Turk and Ambergris Cay. Inagna and the Anguilla Isles: Bermuda: Florida: Cuban Cays; Jamaica. Santo Domingo to St. Lucia. Referred by Dolley to Zanthoxylum fraxineum Willd. Yellow-wood. Satin-wood.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| Jamaica South America| Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Ecuador South America| Saint Lucia South America|