Picramnia Sw.

• Authority

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

• Family

  Picramniaceae

• Scientific Name

  Picramnia Sw.

• Description

  Description - Trees or shrubs, with alternate, unequally pinnate leaves, and small dioecious flowers in narrow panicles. Sepals 3-5, slightly united at the base. Petals 3-5, or sometimes wanting. Stamens 3-5, in the pistillate flowers represented by small staminodia; filaments slender, unappendaged; anthers broad. Ovary 2-3-celled, sessile; stigmas 2 or 3, spreading; ovules 2 in each cavity, pendulous. Fruit baccate, globose to oblong or obovoid, the pulp juicy. [Greek, bitter shrub.] Some thirty species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Picramnia Antidesma Sw.