Rapanea guianensis Aubl.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Myrsinaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Rapanea guianensis Aubl.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high, the trunk sometimes 1.5 dm. in diameter, the foliage glabrous, the bark smooth and gray. Leaves mostly clustered near the ends of the rather slender twigs, short-petioled, obovate or oblong, 4-10 cm. long, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base, bright green and somewhat shining above, dull green beneath, the midvein prominent, the lateral veins faint; flowers green, about 4 mm. broad, nearly sessile on the twigs below the leaves; sepals ovate, about 1.5 mm. long; corolla-lobes oblong, glandular-ciliate, 2-3 times as long as the sepals, somewhat unequal; fruit globose, black when mature, about 4 mm. in diameter.

  • Distribution

    Coppices, pine-lands and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence. Cat Island, Crooked Island and Mariguana : Florida ; Cuba to Puerto Rico and to Trinidad ; Jamaica ; northern South America. Recorded by Dolley as Myrsine laeta DC. Myrsine.

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