Trema

• Authority

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

• Family

  Cannabaceae

• Scientific Name

  Trema

• Description

  
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  Genus Description - Monoecious or polygamous shrubs or small trees, unarmed. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate, 3-nerved at the base, petiolate; stipules minute and early deciduous. Flowers 5-merous, unisexual or bisexual, in axillary cymose clusters; calyx of free sepals; stamens as many as the sepals, inserted on the calyx tube, the anthers opening by longitudinal slits; ovary superior, sessile, l-locular, the styles 2, undivided. Fruit a drupe; stones 1-seeded.