Trema
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Cannabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Tall shrubs or trees, unarmed, usually pubescent. Leaves alternate, toothed, 3-nerved at the base, equilateral or only slightly inequilateral, shortpetioled, the stipules lateral. Flowers small, mostly monoecious or polygamous, greenish or whitish, the perfect mostly fertile, in axillary cymes. Sepals of pistillate flowers induplicate-valvate, those of the perfect flowers slightly imbricated. Stamens 4 or 5. Ovary sessile. Stigmas 2, entire. Ovule pendulous. Drupe ovoid to globose. [Name unexplained.] Some 30 tropical species. Type species: Trema canndbina Lour.