Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae
Description:
Species Description - A shrub or tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs villous-tomentose. Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, coriaceous, 3-15 cm. long, obtuse or shortpointed and mucronate at the apex, subcordate or obtuse at the base, usually very rough (rarely becoming smooth) above, densely reticulate-veined and finely pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, 2-3 mm. long; peduncles few-flowered, 2-10 cm. long; calyx finely pubescent, about 3 mm. long; corolla 1.5-2 cm. long, appressed-riubescent, white, its oblong lobes much shorter than the tube; fruit globose, red, finely pubescent, 46 mm. in diameter, the calyx-limb at length wholly deciduous. Flowers fragrant.
Species Description - A shrub or tree up to 10 m. high, the young twigs villous-tomentose. Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, coriaceous, 3-15 cm. long, obtuse or shortpointed and mucronate at the apex, subcordate or obtuse at the base, usually very rough (rarely becoming smooth) above, densely reticulate-veined and finely pubescent beneath, the stout pubescent petioles 0.5-2 cm. long; stipules triangular-lanceolate, acute, 2-3 mm. long; peduncles few-flowered, 2-10 cm. long; calyx finely pubescent, about 3 mm. long; corolla 1.5-2 cm. long, appressed-riubescent, white, its oblong lobes much shorter than the tube; fruit globose, red, finely pubescent, 46 mm. in diameter, the calyx-limb at length wholly deciduous. Flowers fragrant.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Martinique South America| Jamaica South America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| Virgin Gorda Virgin Islands South America| Martinique South America| Jamaica South America|