Citharexylum Mill.

• Authority

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

• Family

  Verbenaceae

• Scientific Name

  Citharexylum Mill.

• Description

  Description - Trees or shrubs, with alternate leaves and small flowers in terminal or axillary spikes or racemes, the pedicels subtended by minute bracts. Calyx narrowly campanulate, minutely 5-lobed, persistent. Corolla salverform, its limb slightly oblique, 5-lobed. Stamens 4 or 5, adnate to the corolla-tube, the fifth one mostly sterile or rudimentary; filaments filiform. Ovary sessile, incompletely 4-celled; ovules solitary, anatropous; stigma 2-lobed. Drupes berry-like, the fleshy pulp enclosing a bony stone which separates into 2, 2- seeded nutlets. [Greek, fiddle-wood; French, bois fidele.] About 20 species, of tropical America. Type species: Citharexylum spinosum L.