Celtis

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Cannabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Celtis

• Description

  Description - Shrubs, trees, or lianas, with spines or unarmed. Leaves alternate, simple, usually serrate and less frequently crenate or entire, petiolate; stipules minute and deciduous. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual or sometimes bisexual; the staminate flowers in axillary cymes; the pistillate flowers solitary or few in axillary cymes; calyx of free sepals. Petals absent; stamens 5; ovary superior, with a single locule; ovule solitary and pendulous; styles 2. Fruit a fleshy drupe. A genus of approximately 80 species, the majority of the Northern Hemisphere and South Africa.