Authority:

Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

Family:

Solanaceae

Description:

Species Description - Branches stellate-pilose, prickly; leaves minute, entire, stellate-pilose on both surfaces. Plants shrubby, branched, 1-2 m. high; prickles needle-like, in pairs at the nodes, 2-3 times as long as the leaves, slightly recurved, divaricately horizontal, reddish brown, thickened at the base, somewhat less than 12 mm. long; leaves fasciculate, petiolate, oblong or obovate, entire, about 3 mm. long, the base acute, the apex acute or obtuse; inflorescence terminal, solitary, single-flowered; peduncles, calyx and corolla stellate-pilose, unarmed; calyx 5-dentate; corolla white, 5-partite, the lobes liguliform, about 8 mm. long, somewhat shorter than the corolla; ovary globose; style filiform, longer than the stamens; berry sessile, globose, compressed at the base and apex, yellow, translucent, not exceeding the persistent calyx.

Distribution:

Cat Island Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America|