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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Genus
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OXANDRA A. Rich.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sagra, Cub. 10: 45. 1845
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Reference
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R. E. Fries, in Acta Hort. Berg. 10: 153. 1931.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Flowers small, solitary in the axils or in few-flowered axillary inflorescences; pedicels articulate a little above the base, bearing a few small, distichous bracts below and 1 above the articulation. Sepals 3, connate at the base, imbricate in bud, persistent. Petals 6, thin, black when dried, all rather alike, orbicular, ovate or oblong, imbricate. Receptacle hemispheric. Stamens 6-20, lanceolate-oblong, the connective elongated above the anther into a triangular to lanceolate appendage. Carpels rather few, (1-)4-13; ovaries cylindric-ovoid; stigma sessile, capitate or shortly clavate; ovule 1, basal, erect. Monocarps free, nearly sessile or shortly stipitate, 1-seeded. Seeds without an aril.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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A rather large genus with 23 species in tropical America, distributed from the West Indies and Panama to southern Brazil; only 2 species are recorded from Panama.
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Key
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a. Leaves lanceolate, acute at the base -------------- 1. 0. PANAMENSIS. aa. Leaves elliptic or oblong-elliptic, rounded at the base - . 2. 0. LONIGIPETALA.
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