Vitaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Vitaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Climbing vines or erect shrubs, with copious watery sap, nodose joints, alternate petioled leaves, and small regular greenish perfect or polygamodioecious flowers, in panicles, racemes or cymes. Calyx entire or 4-5- toothed. Petals 4-5, separate or coherent, valvate, caducous. Filaments subulate, inserted at the base of the disk or between its lobes; disk sometimes obsolete or wanting; anthers 2-celled. Ovary 1, generally immersed in the disk, 2-6-celled; ovules 1-2 in each cavity, ascending, anatropous. Fruit a 1-6-eelled berry (commonly 2-celled). Seeds erect; testa bony; raphe generally distinct; endosperm cartilaginous; embryo short. About 10 genera and over 500 species, widely distributed.