Guapira fragrans (Dum.Cours.) Little

OCR>>>BOTANICAL
QardeH
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DAUBENY HERBARIUM (FHO)
University of Oxford
Flora of Grenada
Family: Nyctaginaceae
Name: Pisonia fragrans Dum.-Cours.
Locality: Grenada, St. David, La Sagesse, La Sagesse Nature Trail.
12°01'N, 61°41' W
Notes:
Small low-branching tree to 5 m height. Outer bark smooth grey with fine vertical fissures. Slash thin, hard, very fine fibrous, green outer layer then orange, sapwood streaked orange.
Leaves: young leaves papery, older leaves slightly plasticy and brittle; no smell when crushed; upper surface - midrib yellower, slightly prominent; lower surface - several parallel laterals visible; covered in mealy bugs. Inflorescence buds visible.
Common, scattered in highly degraded coastal scrub woodland or coastal thicket.
(RHS colour code: Leaf upper =146A, below=146B)
Collector: Hawthorne, W. D. & Hughes, C. E. Number: 268 Date:	28 November 1999
Distribution: FHO<<<OCR