Serjania subdentata Juss. ex Poir.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Sapindaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Serjania subdentata Juss. ex Poir.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Climbing on trees or shrubs, sometimes 7 m. long, usually shorter; young twigs sulcate, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent. Leaflets elliptic to oblong lanceolate or ovate, coriaceous, 3-8 cm. long, mostly acute or acuminate at the apex, narrowed or rounded at the base, sharply dentate with few or several teeth, shining above; panicles commorily longer than the leaves, puberulent; pedicels 2-5 mm. long; petals obovate, about 4 mm. long; fruit 1.2-2 cm. long, the seeds not enclosed in the ends of the samara-wings.

  • Distribution

    Rocky coppices, scrub-lands and thickets. Andros, Mangrove Cay. New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island. Rum Cay, Great Guana Cay and Great Exuma : Cuba. Referred by Hitchcock to 8. paniculwta H.B.K. Fowl-foot.

    South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Cuba South America|