Byrsonima

  • 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

    Byrsonima

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Shrubs or trees, usually covered with simple or T-shaped hairs. Leaves entire, pinnately veined, eglandular; petioles eglandular; stipules small, free or partially to completely connate, borne at base of petiole or intrapetiolar. Flowers pedicellate, in axillary or terminal racemelike inflorescences; bracteoles eglandular. Calyx of 5 sepals, all bearing a pair of fleshy glands or all eglandular; petals yellow, white, pink, or reddish, the posterior petal usually smaller; stamens 10, the anthers uniform; ovary of 3 connate carpels, the styles free to completely connate. Fruit a fleshy drupe containing a trilocular stone.

  • Distribution

    A genus of about 150 species throughout tropical and subtropical America, mostly South American.

    South America|