Guettarda
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rubiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or shrubs, with opposite leaves and deciduous stipules, the axillary cymose, or sometimes solitary flowers, perfect or polygamo-dioecious. Calyx with an ovoid or globose tube, the limb tubular, rarely persistent, mostly truncate or irregularly toothed. Corolla salverform, the tube elongated, sometimes curved, the limb with 4-9 obtuse imbricated lobes. Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, borne on the corolla-tube; filaments very short or none; anthers linear. Ovary 4-9-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity, pendulous; style filiform; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Fruit drupaceous. [In honor of Jean Etienne Guettard, 1715-1786, French botanist.] Sixty species or more, mostly of tropical America. Type species: Guettarda speeiosa L.