Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Condalia hookeri Berchemia scandens Karwinskia humboldtiana	Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Shrubs or trees, unarmed [armed with thorns]; bud-scales present. Leaves deciduous, opposite; blade gland-dotted abaxially (secondary-veins appearing light and dark-banded); pinnately veined, secondary-veins relatively straight. Inflorescences axillary, umbellike cymes or flowers solitary; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual; hypanthium hemispheric to turbinate, 2–3 mm wide, gland-dotted; sepals 5, spreading, greenish, triangular, keeled adaxially, margins often gland-dotted; petals 5, white to yellowish or greenish yellow, hooded, triangular to deltate, not clawed, gland-dotted; nectary thin, lining hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2–3-locular; ovules 2 per locule; style 1. Fruits drupes; stone 1, indehiscent.

Distribution

Tex., Mexico, West Indies (Cuba), West Indies (Hispaniola), Central America, South American (Colombia)

Discussion

Species ca. 18 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Karwinskia humboldtiana