Casearia spinescens (Sw.) Griseb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Salicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub, 3 m. high or less, or a small tree about 4 m. high, unarmed, or with short spinescent spurs, the branches sometimes elongated and vinedike, the young twigs appressed-pubescent. Leaves obovate to oval or elliptic, membranous, 2-7 cm. long, obtuse or acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, low-crenate, pubescent on both sides when young, becoming glabrate, the petioles 2-8 mm. long; cymes several-flowered, pubescent, sessile in the axils or on leafless twigs; pedicels stout; calyx pubescent, 5-6 mm. long, green, about as long as the pedicel, its rounded segments ovate or elliptic, obtuse; staminodia ovate, broad, a little shorter than the stamens; fruit oblong, 1.5-2 cm. long.
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Distribution
Coppices, New Providence, at Waterloo ; Andros. near Crow Hill : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Tobago; Trinidad; Guiana. Recorded in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 5: 316, as C. alba A. Rich., following Grisebach. Spiny Casearia.
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