Savia

  • Authority

    Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Savia

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Monoecious or dioecious shrubs or small trees, glabrous, or with simple hairs, not producing milky latex. Leaves simple, alternate, and entire; petioles short; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers in axillary, unisexual cymes or racemes; calyx of 5 imbricate sepals; corolla of 5 petals, nectary disk annular, extrastaminal. Staminate flowers subsessile; stamens 5, the filaments free or connate to various degrees; pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers short-pediceled; ovary trilobed, with 3(—12) carpels, these with two ovules each, the styles free or connate, with simple or bifid branches. Fruit usually a 3-lobed or depressed-globose, thin-walled capsule with explosive dehiscence or a drupe; each locule 2-valved; seeds 2 per locule, trigonous.

    Distribution and Ecology - genus of about 25 species occurring in Greater Antilles, South America, Africa, and Madagascar