Reynosia septentrionalis Urb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rhamnaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Usually a shrub, sometimes a tree up to 9 m. high, with a trunk diameter of 2 dm., the bark reddish-brown, splitting into thin plates, the wood dense and heavy. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oval or obovate, 2-4 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous, rounded or emarginate at the apex, narrowed at the base, finely reticulate-veined, revolute-margined, the petioles short; flowers yellowish green, about 5 mm. wide in small axillary umbels; pedicels 4-5 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, acute; drupe ovoid, dark purple, 1-1.5 cm. long, tipped with the base of the style, the thin pulp edible, the stone hard.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Great Sturrup Cay, the Biminis and Eleuthera, to Grand Turk, Inagua and Cay Sal : Florida. Recorded by Hitchcock as Rhamnidium revolutum C. Wright. Common Reynosia.
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