Savia sessiliflora (Sw.) Willd.
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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
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Dioecious shrub or small tree to 7 m tall, not producing milky latex; young twigs pubescent; bark grayish brown, fissured. Leaf blades 4-8 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, glabrous, the apex acute to long-acuminate, the base rounded or obtuse, the margins entire; petioles 1-2 mm long; stipules lanceolate, ca. 2 mm long, early deciduous. Staminate flowers subsessile, congested in leaf axils; calyx ca. 1.2 mm long; filaments free. Pistillate flowers short-pediceled, solitary in leaf axils; calyx 1.5- 2 mm long; ovary trilobed, of 3 carpels, the styles free, bifid at apex. Capsule 3-lobed, ovoid, 6-8 mm long, turning from green to dark brown. Seeds trigonous, 4-5 mm long, light brown, smooth.
Distribution and Ecology - A common tree of coastal dry forests and scrub. Battery Gut (A4168), Cob Gut (A3209), Lameshur (B521). Also on Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, and St. Thomas; the Greater Antilles.