Icacorea guadalupensis (Duch.) Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Myrsinaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Icacorea guadalupensis (Duch.) Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - A glabrous shrub 1-3 m. high, or a tree up to 15 m. high, the stout twigs light grey. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, coriaceous, 10-15 cm. long, obtuse or acutish at the apex, narrowed or cuneate at the base, paler green beneath than above, delicately veined, the stout petioles 7-12 mm. long; panicles terminal, densely many-flowered, 10-15 cm. long; pedicels 2-4 mm. long, rather stout; calyx about 2- mm. long, its 5 segments oblong, obtuse, punctate; corolla white, rotate, its 5 segments ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, symmetrical, more or less punctate or lineolate; fruit subglobose or depressed globose, black when mature, 6-8 mm. in diameter, tipped by the short style.

  • Distribution

    Coppices, North Caicos : Puerto Rico to Virgin Gorda and Santa Lucia. Guadeloupe Marlberry.

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