Coccoloba

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Polygonaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Coccoloba

  • Description

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    Genus Description - Trees or shrubs (seldom scandent or liana-like). Leaves short-petiolate; ocrea small to large, usually membranous. Flowers functionally unisexual, actinomorphic, in ocreolate fascicles (staminate ones) and solitary (pistillate ones) along axillary or terminal spikes or racemes; hypanthium green or whitish, of 5 basally connate tepals; stamens 8, the filaments connate at base, the anthers longitudinally dehiscent; ovary l-locular, uniovular, the styles 3, free to base, the stigma capitate. Fruit usually a variously shaped, 1-seeded achene, covered by a fleshy hypanthium or imbricate tepals lobes.

  • Distribution

    A neotropical genus of 400 species.

    Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|