Celtis iguanaea (Jacq.) Sarg.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Cannabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Scandent shrub or liana that climbs by means of short lateral branches with recurved spines, attaining 3-10(20) m in length. Stems glabrous or puberulent at the extremities, cylindrical, attaining 8 cm in diameter; bark grayish or light brown, with numerous lenticels. Leaves alternate, 4-15 x 2.5-8.7 cm, chartaceous, ovate, oblong, or sometimes obovate. the apex short-acuminate or sometimes obtuse, the base rounded, cordiform, or truncate, the margins entire, erenate. or sparsely serrate; upper surface yellowish green, dull, glabrous or puberulent, punctate, with three main veins, sunken; lower surface yellowish green, dull, glabrous, the venation prominent, with small tufts of hairs in the axils of the secondary veins; petioles 2-15 mm long, flowers unisexual or bisexual, the staminate flowers in branched axillary cymes, the pistillate or bisexual flowers in simple axillary cymes. Calyx of discrete sepals, oblong, concave, eiliate, 1-2 mm long; stamens 5, ascendent; ovary ovoid, with two pubescent styles. Drupe fleshy, ovoid or almost globose, 6-10(14) mm long, orange, with persistent styles.
Phenology - Flowering from February to May and fruiting from May to September.
Conservation Status - Native, uncommon.
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Common Names
azufaifo, cock spur