Symplocos martinicensis Jacq.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Symplocaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Symplocos martinicensis Jacq.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Tree 7-10 m tall, sometimes with numerous branches from base; bark light gray, slightly fissured; twigs glabrous or puberulent, angled. Leaf blades involute, 5-16 X 2.5-5.8 cm, obovate, elliptic, or oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, with prominent midvein along lower surface, the apex long-acuminate, the base acute to obtuse, sometimes unequal, the margins crenate to serrate; petioles 1-2 mm long, puberulent. Flowers nearly sessile, a few in axillary short racemes; peduncles <1 cm long. Calyx green, bell-shaped, 2.5 mm long, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, ca. 1 mm long, ciliate; corolla white, the tube 5-7 mm long, the lobes as long as the tube, oblong, reflexed; stamens exserted, in 2 series, the inner series shorter, the filaments adnate to corolla tube; ovary semiinferior, 3-5-locular, pubescent, the stigma cup-shaped. Drupe ellipsoid, 10-13 mm long, bluish black at maturity.

  • Distribution

    An occasional tree of moist forests. Bordeaux Mountain (A4693, A5107, W457). Also on St. Thomas and Tortola; Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, and French Guiana.

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