Tetrazygia

• Authority

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

• Family

  Melastomataceae

• Scientific Name

  Tetrazygia

• Description

  
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  Description - Trees or shrubs, the foliage often scurfy, with petioled, entire or toothed leaves, and rather small flowers in terminal panicles or corymbs. Calyx constricted above the ovary, its limb 4-5-lobed or subtruncate. Petals 4 or 5, obovate. Stamens S or 10, nearly equal; filaments subulate; anthers linear, opening by a pore. Ovary 4-5-celled; style curved, filiform; stigma minute. Fruit a 4 5-celled fleshy berry. [Greek, referring to the 4-parted flowers of the type species.] About 16 species of the West Indian region. Type species: Tetrazygia tetrandra (Sw.) DC.