Gonocalyx
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Ericaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs, erect or clambering. Leaves alternate, entire, coriaceous, short-petiolate. Inflorescences of terminal racemes or the flowers solitary or in pairs. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx tubular or tubular-campanulate, ribbed or smooth, with 4-5 lobes at the apex; corolla campanulate to tubular, red, pink, or white, with 4-5 lobes; stamens 8-10, the filaments shorter than the anthers, adnate to the base of the corolla, the anthers with two thecae, whose distal portion is elongate and tubular, with a terminal pore or with longitudinal sutures; disc 10-lobate; ovary inferior, 4-5-locular, the style terminal, single, the stigma truncate. Fruit a berry, usually with 4-5 longitudinal ribs; seeds numerous, minute. A genus of 8 species, distributed in Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, Costa Rica, and Colombia.