Thyana discolor (Griseb.) Hitchc.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Sapindaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Thyana discolor (Griseb.) Hitchc.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, up to 2.5 m. high, or a small tree, sometimes 5 m. high, the rather slender twigs and the inflorescence whitish-tomentose. Petioles 2.5 cm. long or less, tomentose; leaflets 3, nearly sessile, thin, narrowly elliptic to obovate, entire, obtuse or rounded at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, 2-8 cm. long, glabrous and green above, white-tonientose beneath, or becoming green when old, the midvein rather prominent, the lateral veins few and slender; racemes many-flowered, peduncled, 2-6 cm. long; pedicels filiform, 4-5 mm. long, single or fascicled; calyx and petals about 1 mm. long; samaras glabrous, shining, veiny, obtuse, 8-10 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Rocky coppices and scrub-lands, on the larger islands throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Mariguana, Inagua and North Caicos. Endemic. Quicksilver-bish. Naked-wood. Hard-Bark.

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