Schoepfia Schreb.

George R. Proctor (2012). Flora of the Cayman Isands (Second Edition). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Morphology General Habit

Glabrous shrubs or small trees with coriaceous leaves

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers

Flowers small and inconspicuous, in short racemes which are solitary or clustered in the leaf-axils; calyx cup-shaped, obscurely toothed; disc entire, adnate to the ovary, enlarging as the ovary ripens, at length almost enveloping the fruit, forming an evident ring around it near the apex. Petals 4–6, inserted at margin of the disc, cohering to form a bell-shaped corolla with free lobes at the apex

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens

Stamens equal in number to the petals, adnate to the corolla-tube

Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary

Ovary partly immersed in the disc, imperfectly 3-celled, with short or long style and 3- lobed stigma; ovules 3, pendulous from apex of the placenta

Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits

Fruit a drupe with thin flesh and hard seed.

Distribution

A small genus of about 12 species in the American and Asiatic tropics.

Ecology

Some have been shown to have parasitic root connections to other plants.