Bumelia lucida W.Small

• Authority

  Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden.

• Family

  Sapotaceae

• Scientific Name

  Bumelia lucida W.Small

• Description

  Species Description - A glabrous shrub, or small tree, 2-7 meters tall, with rigid thorny branches. Leaves numerous; blades leathery, elliptic varying to elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, acute or obtuse at both ends, deep green shining and hardly reticulated above, paler dull and prominently reticulated beneath; petioles slender, 2-5 mm. long; fascicles rather many-flowered; pedicels glabrous, slender, 3-7 mm. long, very slightly if at all enlarged at the apex; sepals suborbicular, about 2 mm. in diameter, the outer somewhat smaller than the inner; corolla-lobes suborbicular; appendages lanceolate, obtuse; staminodia ovate, 2 mm. long, sometimes inequilateral, obtuse; berries mostly oval, about 7-8 mm. long.

• Discussion

  Related to Bumelia lycioides but smaller in all its parts. The sepals are rather broader than long, instead of longer than broad as is the case in B. lycioides, and the corolla-lobes usually subcordate at the base. The staminodia are abruptly contracted or subcordate at the base instead of cuneate and boat-shaped, and they are much less rigid.