Antigonon leptopus Hook. & Arn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Polygonaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Herbaceous, climbing, branched, often 5 m. long or longer, finely pubescent at least above. Leaves thin, broadly ovate, 3-9 cm. long, puberulent, acuminate at the apex, rather deeply cordate at the base, the petioles 1-5 cm. long; racemes several or many, loosely several-flowered, the floriferous part 3-8 cm. long, the tendril as long or shorter; pedicels slender, 10 mm. long or less; flowering calyx pink or sometimes white, about 5 mm. long; fruiting calyx 1-1.5 cm. long, the sepals strongly veined.
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Distribution
Roadways and waste ground, spontaneous after cultivation. New Providence near Nassau : Cuba to Martinique, and in Jamaica. Native of Mexico. Corallixa.
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