Banara

• Authority

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

• Family

  Salicaceae

• Scientific Name

  Banara

• Description

  Description - Shrubs or trees with alternate petioled, somewhat inequilateral, usually glandular-dentate and punctate leaves, small stipules, and small perfect flowers in racemes, corymbs or panicles. Calyx persistent, 3-5-lobed, the lobes valvate. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes and similar to them, persistent, imbricated. Stamens many, with filiform filaments; staminodia none. Ovary superior, 1-celled or by intrusion of the placentae nearly several-celled; ovules many; style slender; stigma capitate. Fruit a fleshy or leathery, indehiscent, many-seeded berry. Seeds striate, the endosperm fleshy. [Guiana name.] About 15 species, natives of tropical America. Type species: Banara guianensis Aubl.