Galactia rudolphioides (Griseb.) Benth. & Hook.f.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Fabaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Slender, twining or trailing, woody below, 1-3 ni. long, glabrous or sparingly appressed-pubeseent. Petioles 2-5 cm. long; stipules triangular or lanceolate, about 2 mm. long; leaflets 3, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or ovateoblong, 2-4 cm. long, obtuse, acutish or emarginate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, glabrous on both sides, revolute-margined, the short petiolules villous; racemes slender-peduncled, longer than the leaves; bracts linear-subulate, 1-2 mm. long; bracelets ovate or lanceolate, acute, about 1.5 mm. long; pedicels pubescent, 2-6 mm. long; calyx about 1.3 cm. long, appressed pubeseent; corolla red or the standard violet, nearly 2 cm. long; standard obovate, parallel with the wings; pod 3-5 cm. long, 7-9 mm. wide, densely villous, several-seeded.
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Distribution
Scrub and pine-lands and in coppices, from Abaco and Groat Bahama to Andros, New Providence. Eleuthera, Cat Island. Watling's, and Emma Chain to Fortune and Crooked Islands: Cuba. Recorded by Dolley as O. pendula Persoon. Red Milk-tea. Catesby.
Great Abaco Bahamas South America| South Andros Bahamas South America| New Providence Bahamas South America| Central Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Cat Island Bahamas South America| Crooked Island Bahamas South America| Cuba South America|