Terminalia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Combretaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, crowded at end of short sympodial branches. Flowers bisexual or bisexual and staminate, regular, with short hypanthium, borne in axillary spikes; calyx persistent, cup-shaped, with 5 lobes on distal portion; corolla wanting; stamens 10, the anthers versatile; nectary disk 5-lobed, densely pubescent; ovary inferior, at the base of the hypanthium, the style exserted. Fruit a 1-seeded dry or fleshy drupe.
Distribution and Ecology - A genus of about 200 species with pantropical distribution, but mainly represented in the paleotropics.