Guilandina crista (L.) Small
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Caesalpiniaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A vine, up to 6 m. long, trailing or climbing, the twigs and leaves armed with hooked prickles, the twigs also more or less densely bristly. Stipules usually foliaeeous, thin, usually incised, persistent, sometimes 5 cm. broad; leaves 3-8 dm. long, more or less pubescent; pinnae 4-8 pairs, short-stalked; leaflets 4-8 pairs, oblong to ovate-oblong or elliptic, rather thin, 2.5-7 cm. long, obtuse, retuse or short-acuminate and often mucronate at the apex, nearly sessile, rounded or subeordate at the base; racemes axillary, pubescent, sometimes bristly, many-flowered, sometimes 3 dm. long; bracts linear-acuminate, reflexed or spreading, 1-1.5 cm. long, deciduous; pedicels 1 cm. long or less; calyx 7-9 mm. long; petals oblong-ovate, about 1 cm. long; pod 5-10 cm. long, 6 cm. wide or less, usually densely prickly; seeds gray, shining, obovoid-oval, slightly compressed, 2-2.5 cm. long, about 1.5 cm. wide.
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Distribution
Coastal thickets, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Mariguana, Inagua, Grand Turk and the Anguilla Isles : Bermuda ; Florida ; West Indies ; coasts of continental tropical America and of the Old World tropics. Gray Nickers. Brier.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| Bahamas South America| Inagua Bahamas South America| Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Anguilla South America| Bermuda South America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|