Picramnia pentandra Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Picramniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Picramnia pentandra Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - A shrub, or a small tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs and leaves finely appressed-pubescent. Leaflets 5-9, chartaceous, oblong to ovate or lanceolate, 3-12 cm. long, acute, acuminate, or obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, shining above, becoming glabrous on both sides, the petiolules short; panicles slender, loosely branched, 7-15 cm. long; sepals 5, ovate, acute, about 2 mm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, about as long as the sepals; stamens 5; berries globose to oblong or obovoid, red or scarlet, 9-15 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence, Eleuthera, Pat Island, Watling's, Atwood Cay, Acklin's. Long Island, Mariguana and North Caicos : Florida ; Cuba to Trinidad. Bitter Bush. Snake-root.

    Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Trinidad and Tobago South America|