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 - A shrub, 1-2 m. high, usually much-branched, the branches slender, tough, whitish appressed-pubescent and grooved when young. Leaves 5-12 cm. long; stipules filiform-setaceous, very small; petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 9-17, oblong or oblong-obovate, 3 cm. long or less, obtuse or acutish and mucronate at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, pale green, appressed-pubescent on both sides, or glabrous above, darkening in drying; racemes narrow, severalmany- liowered, 2-5 cm. long; pedicels about 1 mm. long, about equalling the i-ampanulate, pubescent calyx, reflexed in fruit; corolla yellowish, 3.5-4.5 mm. long; pod falcate, appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous when old, 8-15 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, ridged on the sutures, 4-8-seeded.
Species Description - A shrub, 1-2 m. high, usually much-branched, the branches slender, tough, whitish appressed-pubescent and grooved when young. Leaves 5-12 cm. long; stipules filiform-setaceous, very small; petiole 1-2.5 cm. long; leaflets 9-17, oblong or oblong-obovate, 3 cm. long or less, obtuse or acutish and mucronate at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, pale green, appressed-pubescent on both sides, or glabrous above, darkening in drying; racemes narrow, severalmany- liowered, 2-5 cm. long; pedicels about 1 mm. long, about equalling the i-ampanulate, pubescent calyx, reflexed in fruit; corolla yellowish, 3.5-4.5 mm. long; pod falcate, appressed-pubescent when young, glabrous when old, 8-15 mm. long, 2 mm. thick, ridged on the sutures, 4-8-seeded.
Discussion:
Waste and cultivated lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, New Providence, Eleuthera, Great Guana, Exuma, Cat Island, Watling's, Long Island, Acklin's and Inagua : Bermuda ; southern United States ; West Indies ; Mexico to continental tropical South America. J. argentea of Schoepf. Wild Indigo.
Distribution:
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Grand Bahama Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Exuma Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Acklins Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies| México Mexico North America|