Allophylus cominia (L.) Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Sapindaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Allophylus cominia (L.) Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - A shrub or small tree or sometimes up to about 15 m. high, the twigs, petioles, lower leaf-surfaces and inflorescence brownish-tomentose. Petioles rather slender, 2-7 cm. long; leaflets 3, short-stalked, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, low-serrate 4-15 cm. long, acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the oblique base, the lateral ones inequilateral; racemes very slender, long peduncled, densely many-flowered, simple or few-branched, 5-8 cm. long, the flowers fascicled; pedicels 1-1.5 mm. long; flowers greenish yellow, about 1 mm. long; fruits subglobose, about 5 mm. in diameter, red or orange.

  • Distribution

    Coppices, Abaco and New Providence - Cuba; Hispaniola ; Jamaica. ALLOPHYLUS.

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