Tournefortia

• Authority

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

• Family

  Boraginaceae

• Scientific Name

  Tournefortia

• Description

  Description - Trees, shrubs or vines, with alternate entire leaves, and small secund flowers in terminal, often forked cymes, the cyme-branches usually elongated. Calyx persistent, 5-parted. Corolla mostly salverform, the tube cylindric, swollen above, the lobes spreading. Stamens 5, borne on the corolla-tube, included; filaments short; anthers ovate to lanceolate. Ovary 4-celled; style terminal, 2-lobed at the apex. Drupe small, the exocarp fleshy or corky, containing 4 nutlets or fewer. [Commemorates Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, 1656-1708, renowned French botanist.] Over 100 species, of tropical and subtropical regions. Type species: Tourncfortia Jiirsiitissima L.