8. Reynosia Grisebach, Cat. Pl. Cub. 33. 1866.
Red ironwood [For Alvaro Reynoso, 1829–1888, Cuban chemist and agriculturalist, who revolutionized the sugar industry] Red ironwood [For Alvaro Reynoso, 1829–1888, Cuban chemist and agriculturalist, who revolutionized the sugar industry]
Guy L. Nesom
Shrubs or small trees, unarmed; bud scales present. Leaves persistent, opposite; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary veins straight nearly to margins, higher order veins forming adaxially raised reticulum enclosing isodiametric areoles. Inflorescences axillary, fascicles or flowers solitary; pedicels not fleshy in fruit. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual; hypanthium cupulate, 2–4 mm wide; sepals [4–]5, spreading, yellow-green, triangular-ovate, small-keeled adaxially, not crested; petals 0[4–5]; nectary fleshy, filling hypanthium, margin entire; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1. Fruits drupes, 10–20 mm; stone 1, indehiscent.
Species ca. 15 (1 in the flora): Florida, West Indies, Central America (Guatemala).
SELECTED REFERENCE Schirarend, C. and P. Hoffmann. 1993. Untersuchungen zur Blutenmorphologie der Gattung Reynosia Griseb. (Rhamnaceae). Flora, Morphol. Geobot. Ecophysiol. 188: 275–286.
