Maba crassinervis (Krug & Urb.) Urb.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Ebenaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub 1-3 m. high, or a small tree up to about 7 m. high, the branches slender, gray, stiff, the young twigs pubescent. Leaves obovate to elliptic, coriaceous, 3-7 cm. long, rounded, subtruncate or obtuse at the apex, obtuse or narrowed at the base, glabrous, dark green and shining above, pale, strongly and densely reticulate-veined and pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent petioles 2-7 mm. long; staminate flowers 3 together on short axillary peduncles: calyx 3-4-toothed, densely pubescent, about 4 mm. long; corolla glabrous within, densely pubescent without; stamens 9; pistillate flowers solitary; fruit solitary and short-peduncled in the axils, globose, yellowish, 1.5-2.3 cm. in diameter, the persistent calyx 1-2 cm. wide; seeds about 1 cm. long, ovoid, oblique.
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Discussion
Coppices and rocky scrub-lands, Andros, New Providence, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Watling's, Atwood Cay, Great Ragged Island, Fortune, Acklin's and Crooked Islands: Cuba; Hlspanlola. Recorded by Coker as Macreightia caribaea A. DC, and referred by Hitchcock to Diospyros halesioides Grlseb. Feather-bed. Boa-wood.
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Distribution
Andros, New Providence, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma, Eleuthera, Watling's, Atwood Cay, Great Ragged Island, Fortune, Acklin's and Crooked Islands: Cuba; Hlspanlola.
South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Ragged Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Cuba South America| West Indies|