Flowers without petals
Family: EUPHORBIACEAE (subfamily Phyllanthoideae) / PHYLLANTHACEAE
Astrocasia tremula (Griseb.) G.L. Webster
Endangered
Dioecious arborescent glabrous shrub
or small tree.
Leaves Alternate, membranous, on long slender petioles, pinnate-veined, whitish-glaucous on the underside, often deciduous before flowering.
Leaves Alternate, membranous, on long slender petioles, pinnate-veined, whitish-glaucous on the underside, often deciduous before flowering.
Flowers
clustered in the leaf-axils
Pistillate
flowers and fruits very long-stalked, ovary 3-celled
Staminate
flowers on short pedicels
Fruit
an explosively dehiscent, 3-grooved capsule
Distribution:
Grand Cayman and Jamaica, in rocky woodlands, Central America, northern South
AmericaThe Plant List
Chascotheca neopeltandra synonym C. domingensis
Vulnerable
Dioecious shrub, branchlets with horizontal frond-like habit 
Chascotheca on Jasmin Lane, Spotts, Grand Cayman, Sept. 3, 2006
by Sling-shot, Wild Jasmine - Tabernaemontana laurifolia
by Sling-shot, Wild Jasmine - Tabernaemontana laurifolia
Roger's Wreck Trail, East End, Grand Cayman, Sept. 7, 2003
Chascotheca neopeltandra - pistillate - fruiting, Ironwood Forest, George Town,
exceedingly rocky woodland.
Old George - Hohenbergia caymanensis Britton ex.L. B. Smith,
Grand Cayman endemic giant Bromeliad, centre background,
6 months after Category 5 Hurricane Ivan hit Grand Cayman
exceedingly rocky woodland.
Old George - Hohenbergia caymanensis Britton ex.L. B. Smith,
Grand Cayman endemic giant Bromeliad, centre background,
6 months after Category 5 Hurricane Ivan hit Grand Cayman
P. Ann van B. Stafford, March 25, 2005.
Click here for maps and pictures from 2002
Ironwood Forest, Grand Cayman
Click here for maps and pictures from 2002
Ironwood Forest, Grand Cayman
Chascotheca on Jasmin Lane at Spotts, Grand Cayman, June 22, 2014
by Jasmine - Plumeria obtusa
Monoecious shrub
Roger's Wreck Trail, East End, Grand Cayman
Adrian's Cave, George Town, Grand Cayman
Colliers Wilderness Road, East End, Grand Cayman, Nov. 6, 2011
Leaves short-petiolate, blades usually elliptic or ovate, mostly 2–8 cm
long, obtuse or rarely acute at the apex, often somewhat glaucous or purple-tinged
beneath
Colliers Wilderness Road, East End, Grand Cayman, Nov. 6, 2011
Old Robin Road, Grand Cayman, June 17, 2002
Distribution: Grand Cayman, Jamaica and the Swan Islands,
in various habitats, the Cayman plants in dry, rocky woodlands
Phyllanthus nutans ssp grisebachianus (Müll.Arg.)
G.L.Webster
Data deficient
Little Cayman, Eastern Cuba
p.442
Phyllanthus nutans ssp. grisebachianus (Müll.Arg.)
G.L.Webster Cuba, 1957
Phyllanthus caymanensis Webster & Proctor
Phyllanthus caymanensis - IUCN Red List
Endangered
This species is a low shrub growing up to 2.5 metres tall but often much less. It is a facultatively drought-deciduous species, shedding leaves and branchlets in the dry season to a varying degree, depending on rainfall patterns each year. It is highly restricted to shrubland habitats on soil or pavement limestone rock which itself is a restricted habitat within the Cayman Islands, having been very heavily impacted by agriculture.
This species is a low shrub growing up to 2.5 metres tall but often much less. It is a facultatively drought-deciduous species, shedding leaves and branchlets in the dry season to a varying degree, depending on rainfall patterns each year. It is highly restricted to shrubland habitats on soil or pavement limestone rock which itself is a restricted habitat within the Cayman Islands, having been very heavily impacted by agriculture.
Cayman
Islands endemic – Little Cayman, Cayman Brac and more recently it has been
found in two areas of dry shrubland in the east interior of Grand Cayman
Monoecious shrub up to 2.5 m tall
Leaf
blades not over 2.5 cm long, always
pinnate-veined
Leaves
membranous, short-petiolate, the blades ovate or rhombic-ovate, mostly 1.5–2.5
cm long, obtusely to acutely pointed at the apex, somewhat pale or subglaucous
beneath;
Stipules
1.2–1.5 mm long.
Flowers
in axillary cymules, each cluster with one central female flower and several
lateral male flowers
Female
flowers with filiform pedicels becoming 8–12 mm long in fruit
Capsules
oblate, prominently veiny, greenish; seeds angled
Phyllanthus caymanensis
shrub 2.5m tall, Cayman Brac,
Collector: George R. Proctor Aug.7, 1975
Institute of Jamaica
TROPICOS image No. 04662091
Cayman Brac Nature Notes Scroll down to photo of Phyllanthus caymanensis
Half day or full day
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