Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Picramnia pentandra Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 1: 220. 1797
I'it, annua micrantha L. Tub Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 7: 262. 1847. Picramnia cubensis Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 3D : 455. 1858. /';, ramnia obUmgifolia Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 3D : 455. 1858. ■ Picramnia antidesmoides Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 140. 1859.
A shrub or tree, with minutely appressed-pubescent young twigs and young leaves. Leaves mostly 1-3 dm. long; leaflets 3-12 cm. long, 5-9, the blades elliptic, oblong, oval, lanceolate, or ovate, acute or acuminate at both ends, or obtuse or the apex, becoming glabrous on both sides, usually shiningabove, short-petioluled ; panicle branched, the branches short ; sepals 5, ovate or triangular-ovate, acute, about 2 mm. long; petals linear-lanceolate, about as long as the sepals ; stamens 5 ; berries globose or oblong, varying to ovoid or obovoid, red or scarlet, 9-15 mm. long.
Type locality : Montserrat.
Distribution : Florida and the West Indies.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
