Zuelania guidonia (Sw.) Britton & Millsp.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Salicaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Zuelania guidonia (Sw.) Britton & Millsp.

  • Description

    Species Description - A tree, up to about 30 m. high, usually much smaller, the stout twigs densely pubescent when young. Leaves thin, deciduous, oblong to oblong-laneeolate or elliptic, 7-20 cm. long, low-crenate or nearly entire, strongly pinnately veined, acute or acuminate at the apex, obtuse or rounded and mostly somewhat oblique at the base, glabrous or nearly so above, pubescent beneath, the petioles 1 em. long or less; fascicles many-flowered; pedicels pubescent, 6-10 mm. long; sepals pubescent, suborbicular, about 7 mm. long; staminodia about one-half as long as the stamens; fruit subglobose, 3-5 cm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    Coppices and scrub-lands, Abaco, Andros and New Providence: Cuba; Jamaica.

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