Rapanea
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Myrsinaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs or small trees, with alternate coriaceous leaves, and small bracted polygamo-dioeeious flowers in lateral or axillary fascicles. Calyx mostly 4-5- cleft, persistent. Corolla 4-5-parted, or rarely of 4 or 5 separate petals, the segments spreading or recurved. Stamens borne on the bases of the corolla segments; filaments short; anthers obtuse. Ovary globose or ovoid; style short or slender; stigma various; ovules few or many. Fruit a globose, nearly dry, small 1-seeded berry. [Guiana name.] Over 80 species, mostly of tropical regions, the following typical.