Maytenus buxifolia (A.Rich.) Griseb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Celastraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub or a tree up to 10 m. high, the trunk up to 2.5 dm. in diameter, the twigs gray, glabrous, becoming nearly terete. Leaves oblong to obovate or oblong-spatulate, 1-4 cm. long, 4-20 mm. wide, coriaceous, obtuse or subtruncate at the apex, obtuse, narrowed, or cuneate at the base, short-petioled, faintly shining above, dull beneath, the midvein impressed on both sides, the lateral venation obsolete; flowers few in the clusters; pedicels 1-4 mm. long; calyxlobes semiorbicular, 0.5 mm. long; petals greenish yellow, nearly 2 mm. long, ovate, obtuse; fruit globose-obovoid, red or orange, 5-9 mm. long.
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Distribution
Thickets and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Caicos and Inagua : Cuba ; Hispaniola. Box-leaved Maytenus.
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