Citharexylum gentryi Moldenke, Verbenaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Common name(s): [more details]

Spanish: palo de vaca, sauco macho

Habit:  tree

Description:  "Slender midcanopy tree to 20 m tall. Leaves opposite on fertile branches, whorled on some sterile branches, entire, acute, more or less rounded at the base, to 18 x 10 cm, conspicuously and softly puberulous. Pedicels ca. 2 mm long. Flowers with calyx cupular, ca. 2 mm long; corolla white. Fruits ellipsoid, ca. 6 mm long, the fruiting calyx patelliform" (Dodson & Gentry, 1978; p. 578).

Habitat/ecology:  A timber tree in its native habitat and may be introduced for that purpose.

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Panama, Ecuador and Peru (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Ecuador (Galápagos Islands) Santa Cruz Group	Santa Cruz Island	introduced invasive cultivated	Charles Darwin Foundation (2008)

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Central America Central America (Pacific rim)	Panama (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
South America (Pacific rim) South America (Pacific rim)	Ecuador (Republic of) (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) Los Rios, Napo
South America (Pacific rim) South America (Pacific rim)	Perú (Republic of)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) Tumbes

Control:  If you know of control methods for Citharexylum gentryi, please let us know.