Terminalia

• Authority

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

• Family

  Combretaceae

• Scientific Name

  Terminalia

• Description

  Description - Trees or shrubs, with broad alternate entire loaves, usually clusteed at the ends of the banches, and small spicate flowers. Calyx-tube terete, ribless, the lobes deciduous. Corolla none. Stamens 10 to 2d, exserted, the filaments slender, the anthers cordate. Fruit a drupe. [Latin, referring to the clustered leaves at the ends of the branches.] About 100 species, mostly of the Old World tropics. Type species: Terminalia Catappa L.