Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalpighiales
- FamilyEuphorbiaceae
Native toBahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras
Observations recorded37,448
Trees up to 40 m tall in wild; stem and main branches densely spiny; indumentum yellowish brown; branches densely lenticellate, glabrous. Stipules lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 10-15 × 2-3 mm, pubescent, caducous; petiole 4-20 cm, apex with 2 glands; leaf blade broadly ovate, 5-29 × 5-17 cm, papery, abaxially pilose along midrib, adaxially glabrous, base cordate, margins ± shallowly dentate-serrate, apex caudate-acuminate, mucronulate; midrib elevated on both surfaces, lateral veins 10-13(-16) on each side. Male flowers: inflorescence ovoid-conical, (1.6-)4-5 × (0.8-)1.5-2 cm, mostly dark red; peduncles (1.2-)7-10 cm, often with solitary female flower at base; pedicel ca. 2 mm; calyx tube 2-3 mm; stamen connectives and filaments connate into column, 4-12 mm, longest at base of catkin; anthers in (1 or)2 or 3 whorls. Female flowers: pedicel 10-17 mm, after anthesis up to 6 cm; calyx tube truncate, 4-6(-8) mm, enclosing ovary; style column 2-5 cm; stigmatic disk dark purple, 1.5-2.5 cm in diam., with 11-14 obtuse lobes, spreading radially. Fruiting pedicel pendent, to 6 cm; fruit oblate, 3-5 × 8-9 cm in diam., becoming reddish brown, concave at apex and base, longitudinally grooved