Colubrina

• Authority

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

• Family

  Rhamnaceae

• Scientific Name

  Colubrina

• Description

  Description - Trees or shrubs, with alternate, petioled leaves, and small perfect yellow or greenish flowers in axillary clusters. Calyx-tube hemispheric, the 5 lobes spreading. Disk angled or lobed. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5, the short filaments slender. Ovary immersed in the disk, 3-eelled. ovules 1 in each cavity; styles 3, united below; stigmas blunt. Drupe small, 3-lobed or 3-grooved, splitting into 3 nutlets, its flesh thin. Seeds smooth and shining, the endosperm thin. [Latin, coluber, a serpent.] About 15 species, 1 of them Asiatic, the others of tropical America. Type species: Colubrina ferruginosa Brongn.