Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Fabaceae
Fabaceae
Description:
Species Description - Stems erect or ascending, somewhat woody, 3-9 dm. high, puberulent or short-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, connate below, or at length distinct, mostly shorter than the petioles; leaflets 3 or often only 1, various in form, mostly elliptic, but also lanceolate, obovate, nearly linear, or orbicular, sometimes several forms on the same plant, glabrous or nearly so and dark green above, finely pubescent and pale beneath, 2-7.5 cm. long; stipels subulate; racemes 2-8 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, pubescent, shorter than the pedicels, deciduous; pedicels 6-12 mm. long; calyx small, about 3 mm. long, its teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla purple or purplish, 2-3 times as long as the calyx; loment 3-8-jointed, 3 cm. long or less, its upper suture continuous, the lower margin deeply undulate, the oblong joints densely pubescent.
Species Description - Stems erect or ascending, somewhat woody, 3-9 dm. high, puberulent or short-pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, connate below, or at length distinct, mostly shorter than the petioles; leaflets 3 or often only 1, various in form, mostly elliptic, but also lanceolate, obovate, nearly linear, or orbicular, sometimes several forms on the same plant, glabrous or nearly so and dark green above, finely pubescent and pale beneath, 2-7.5 cm. long; stipels subulate; racemes 2-8 cm. long; bracts linear-lanceolate, pubescent, shorter than the pedicels, deciduous; pedicels 6-12 mm. long; calyx small, about 3 mm. long, its teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute; corolla purple or purplish, 2-3 times as long as the calyx; loment 3-8-jointed, 3 cm. long or less, its upper suture continuous, the lower margin deeply undulate, the oblong joints densely pubescent.
Discussion:
Dry or moist places in scrub, coppices, pine-lands, waste or cultivated lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Watling's, Crooked Island and East Caicos : Florida : West Indies ; continental tropical America ; tropical Africa. Recorded by Schoepf as Hedysarum canescens. Common Tick-trefoil.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|