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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Genus
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TROPHIS P. Br.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. Jam. 357. 1756
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Reference
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L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10. 1289. 1759, nom. conserv.
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Synonym
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Bucephalon L. Sp. P1. 1190. 1753, nom. rejic. Siutchia Pax & Hoffm. ex Morton, in Journ. Wash. Acad. Sci. 27:306. 1937.
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Description
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Dioecious trees and shrubs, the branches unarmed. Leaves alternate, distichous; stipules lateral. Both staminate and pistillate inflorescences secund racemes and spikes, the small congested or relatively distant flowers interspersed with small, shortly stipitate, peltate bracts. Staminate flowers: tepals 4, united or essentially free to the base, with an obvious pistillode; stamens 4, the filaments much longer than the tepals and strongly inflexed before anthesis, later sharply reflexed, the anthers broadly oval, introrse. Pistillate flowers epigynous; tepals 4, minute; style central and deeply 2-lobed. Fruit a small fleshy 1-seeded drupe.
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Habit
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trees shrubs
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Distribution
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About 6 species ranging from southern Mexico to the Amazon basin, and in the Antilles.
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Note
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Trophis chorizantha Standl., with less congested staminate spikes and racemose pistillate inflorescences is to be expected in western Panama.
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