Bunchosia glandulosa (Cav.) DC.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malpighiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Bunchosia glandulosa (Cav.) DC.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Shrub or small tree 3-7 m tall; bark gray, fissured, rough, with strong fetid smell when cut; stems cylindrical, gray, with numerous whitish lenticels, pubescent when young. Leaf blades 3.5-10.5 x 1.4-5.6 cm, elliptic, chartaceous, glabrous, the apex obtuse acute or acuminate, the base narrowed, with a pair of impressed glands, the margins entire; petioles glabrescent, 3-10 mm long. Flowers long-pedicellate, in axillary, racemelike cymes; bracteoles minute, with a large nectary; pedicels 5-10 mm long, slender; calyx bearing 8 fleshy glands; petals light yellow, obovate to ovate-lanceolate, 8-9 mm long, long-clawed; filaments connate at base; ovary of 2 carpels, glabrous, the style single. Drupe ovoid to globose, 8-10 mm long, dark orange.

    Distribution and Ecology - A common shrub of coastal dry forests or thickets. Carolina (A2819), Lameshur (B646). Also on Anegada, Jost van Dyke, St. Croix, and St. Thomas; the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Lesser Antilles.