Myroxylon

• Authority

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

• Family

  Fabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Myroxylon

• Description

  Description - Shrubs or trees, usually spiny, with usually toothed, sometimes spinulose dentate leaves and small, dioecious or polygamous flowers, fascicled or short racemose in the axils. Sepals 4 or 5, imbricated. Petals wanting. Stamens several or numerous, borne on a glandular disk, the anthers versatile. Ovary with 2-6 parietal placentae; ovules few or several; style simple or cleft, sometimes very short; stigmas dilated, rarely lobed. Fruit a small, 2-several-seeded berry, the seeds obovoid. [Greek, balsam wood.] About 30 species, tropical and subtropical in distribution. Type species: Myroxylon suaveolens Forst.