Gouania
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rhamnaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Woody vines, climbing by tendrils, with alternate petioled broad leaves, and small polygamous flowers in panicled spikes or narrow racemes. Calyx obconic, with 5 spreading lobes. Disk 5-angled or 5-horned. Petals 5, hooded. Stamens 5, short. Ovary immersed in the disk, 3-celled; ovules 1 in each cavity; styles 3, united at the base; stigmas very small. Fruit dry, 3-winged, separating into 3 nutlets. Seeds shining. [Commemorates Antoine Gouan, 1733-1821, professor in Montpellier.] Type species: Gouania tomentosa Jacq.