Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chalcas exotica (L.) Milisp. Field Columb. Mus. Publ
Bot. 1 : 25. 1895.
Murraea exotica L. Mant. 563. 1771.
Camuniitm exoHcum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 99. 1891.
A shrub or small tree, with pale bark and usually puberulent twigs and petioles ; leaflets 3-9, ovate to rhombic-ovate, oval, or sometimes obovate, 1.5-5 cm. long, 0.7-2.3 cm. broad, occasionally longer and broader, obtuse or obtusely acuminate and frequently emarginate at the apex, cuueate at the base, short-petioluled ; flowers campanulate, fragrant, 1.3-2 cm. broad ; sepals triangular, obtuse, glabrous or puberulent ; petals white, oblanceolate or sometimes obovate or spatulate, 1.2-2.3 cm. long, 3.5-7 mm. broad; gynophore well-developed ; ovary glabrous; berry ovoid or subglobose, 1-1.6 cm. long, pointed, red.
Type locality : India.
Distribution : West Indies and tropical continental America. Naturalized from Asia.
- 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
