Chrysobalanus icaco
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Description
Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall, the branches glabrous and lenticellate.
Leaves orbicular to ovate-elliptic, 2-8 by 2-6 cm, retuse, rounded or with short blunt acumen at apex, subcuneate at base, glabrous on both surfaces;
Stipules 1-3 mm long, caducous.
Inflorescences small terminal and axillary cymules or panicles of cymules, the rachis and branches grey-puberulous.
Flowers 4-6 mm long.
Petals white, glabrous, exserted.
Stamens 15-26, the filaments joined for up to half of length in small groups, densely hairy, exserted.
Ovary at base of receptacle, pilose.
Fruit ovate to obovate, 2-5 cm long;
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya (Singapore); Vietnam (Vietnam cultivated), Neotropics, mainly in coastal areas present, Pacific: Fiji (Fiji), West & Central Africa present
Neotropics, mainly in coastal areas; West & Central Africa, naturalized in Fiji, cultivated in Vietnam; in Malesia cultivated in Singapore where it has escaped and naturalized. Fig. ID.