Bourreria
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Shrubs or small trees, with alternate petioled entire leaves, and white flowers in terminal corymb-like cymes. Calyx campanulate, 2-5-lobed, the lobes valvate. Corolla salverform, the limb 5-lobed. Stamens 5, borne on the corolla-tube, the filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, 2-celled or incompletely 4-celled; styles 2-eleft or connate; stigmas flattened. Fruit a drupe, with thin flesh, inclosing 4 bony nutlets ridged on the back. [Commemorates J. A. Beurer, a Nuremberg apothecary.] About 25 species of tropical America. Type species: Bourreria succulenta Jacq.