Hippomane mancinella L.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Hippomane mancinella L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - An evergreen tree 4-20 m. high. Leaves shining, glabrous, thickish, ovate or oval, 4-10 em. long, blunt or somewhat narrowed at the base, acute or short-acuminate, undulate or slightly shallow-serrate; principal veins at nearly right angles to the midrib; veinlets delicately reticulate; petioles slender, somewhat shorter, or at times longer, than the blades; stipules 4-S mm. long; bracts broader than long, crenulate; male calyx with 3 unequal acute lobes; female calyx of ovate or orbicular sepals; drupe spheroidal when fresh, 2.5-3.5 cm. in diameter, yellowish; nut depressed, often bearing numerous grouped thorn-like projections.

  • Distribution

    Rocky coppices and white-lands, Abaco, Andros, Great Guana cay, Atwood Cay, Fortune Island, Inagua, Providenciales and Anguilla Islands: Florida; West Indies; Mexico and continental tropical America. Manchioneel. Catesby, 2: pl. 95.

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