Byrsonima

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Malpighiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Byrsonima

• Description

  
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  Description - Shrubs or trees, with opposite petioled or sessile leaves, the flowers in terminal panicles or racemes. Calyx 10-glandular, or glandless, of 5 broad persistent sepals. Petals 5, the blades suborbieular to reniform. Stamens 1, all antheriferous; filaments short, slightly united at the base. Ovary 3-lobed; styles 3, slender; stigmas subulate. Drupes ovoid to globose. [Greek, tanning.] About 100 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Malpighia spicata Cav.