Jacquinia keyensis Mez

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Theophrastaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Jacquinia keyensis Mez

  • Description

    Species Description - A tree, up to 6 m. high, with a trunk sometimes 2.5 dm. in diameter, the nearly smooth bark light gray, the young twigs finely pubescent, somewhat angled, densely leafy. Leaves oblong-obovate to spatulate, 3-7 cm. long, obtuse or retuse and apiculate at the apex, narrowed at the base, glabrous, shining above, dull beneath, the petioles short; racemes 6 cm. long or less; pedicels stout, about 1 cm. long; sepals ovate-orbicular, obtuse; flowers very fragrant; corolla salverform, about 1 cm. broad, its lobes longer than the tube; stamens shorter than the staminodia; berry subglobose, orange-red, 8-10 mm. in diameter, hard.

  • Discussion

    Coastal rocks, coppices and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida : cays of northern Cuba: Jamaica. Referred by Berrlck, by Dolley and by Hitchcock to Jacquinia annularis Jacq. Joe-wood. Joe-bush. Ironwood. Catesby 1; 98.

  • Distribution

    Abaco and Great Bahama to Grand Turk, Inagua and the Anguilla Isles : Florida : cays of northern Cuba: Jamaica

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