Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Amyris diatrypa Spreng. Neue Entd. 3 : 48. 1822 A shrub or tree, 3-10 m. tall, the young growth and branches of the inflorescence minutely puberulent ; leaves opposite, with petioles 0.5-1.5 cm. long; leaflets 3, elliptic to nearly orbicular, or obovate, acute, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, narrowly to broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, 1-3 cm. long, 0.6-2 cm. broad, entire or obsoletely crenulate, coarsely glandular-punctate with black glands, shining above, beneath minutely puberulent, especially on the veins ; inflorescence terminal, paniculate, few-manyflowered ; sepals triangular to semiorbicular ; petals chartaceous, 2 mm. long ; gynophore wanting ; ovary stipitate, glabrous ; fruit obovoid, 7-8 mm. long, 5-6 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Hispaniola.
Distribution : Santo Domingo ; province of Santa Clara, Cuba.
- 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
