Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Trichilia monacantha Urban, Symb. Ant. 1: 329. 1899
A shrub 2.5 m. or more in height, with terete grayish-brown branches, the twigs angled and minutely and densely puberulent; leaves digitately 3-5-foliolate; petioles puberulent, 3-6 mm. long; leaflets oblong-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, acuminate at the apex and spinetipped by the excurrent midrib, acute or cuneate at the base, the terminal leaflet 2-2.5 cm. long, 0.7-0.8 cm. broad, the lateral leaflets somewhat smaller, sessile, coriaceous, glabrous, entire; lateral veins more or less prominent on both surfaces, the midrib prominent beneath; inflorescence axillary, racemose, few-flowered, the branches puberulent; bracts linear-subulate, 1.5-2 mm. long; flowers imperfectly known; calyx strigillose; fruit unknown.
Type locality: In woods near Santiago, Santo Domingo. ,
Distribution: Santo Domingo.
- 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
