Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Bunchosia swartziana Griseb. PI. Brit. W. Ind. 115. 1859
Bunchosia media Macfad. Fl. Jam. 149. 1837. Not B. media DC. 1824. Malpighia nitida Sw. Obs. Bot. 180. 1791. Not M. nitida L. 1762.
Leaf-blades elliptic or oblong, varying to broadest above or below the middle, 3-6.5 cm. long, glabrous, bright-green and shining above, pale and dull beneath, usually somewhat acuminate at the apex, but blunt, normally acute at the base, short-petioled ; pedicels appressed-pubescent during anthesis ; sepals ovate or oblong, 3-4 mm. long, the glands about one half the length of the sepal-body ; larger petals 5-7 mm. long, with suborbicular denticulate blades, the inner petal spatulate ; ovary and style glabrous ; drupes 9-11 mm. in diameter, scarlet.
Type locality : Jamaica. Distribution : Jamaica.
- 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
