Gouania

• Authority

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

• Family

  Rhamnaceae

• Scientific Name

  Gouania

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Woody vines, climbing by simple, axillary tendrils, usually basal to the inflorescences. Leaves alternate, chartaceous to coriaceous, usually serrate on margins, the teeth glandular; stipules small, persistent. Flowers bisexual or less commonly unisexual too, actinomorphic, in axillary or terminal spikes, racemes, or panicles; hypanthium obconical to bell-shaped, crowned by 5 persistent calyx lobes; petals yellowish green to whitish, hood-shaped, shortly clawed at base; stamens as long as the petals, usually hooded by the petals, the filaments adnate to the margin of nectary disk, alternating with staminodial flanges; nectary disk cup-shaped, with staminodial flanges; ovary seemingly inferior, 3-locular, the locules with a single ovule, the style slender, with 3 reflexed stigmas. Fruit a trilocular, 3- winged, septicidal schizocarp, splitting into 3 indehiscent mericarps; seeds obovate in outline, shiny.