Krugiodendron

Urban

Symb. Antill. 3: 313. 1902.

Common names: Leadwood
Etymology: For Carl Wilhelm Krug, 1833–1898, major collaborator with Urban on the West Indian flora, and Greek dendron, tree
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 12. Treatment on page 66. Mentioned on page 45.

Shrubs or trees, unarmed; bud scales present. Leaves persistent, usually opposite or subopposite, rarely alternate, not borne on short shoots; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary veins arching near margins, higher order veins not forming adaxially raised reticulum. Inflorescences axillary, within foliage, umbels; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual; hypanthium very shallowly cupulate, 3–4 mm wide; sepals 5, spreading, greenish yellow, triangular to triangular-ovate, crested adaxially; petals 0; nectary fleshy, filling hypanthium, margin pentagonal, decagonal, or weakly subcrenulate; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1. Fruits drupes, 5–8[–12] mm; stone 1, indehiscent.

Distribution

Fla., s Mexico, West Indies, Central America (s to Costa Rica).

Discussion

Species 1.

Selected References

None.