Galactia monophylla Griseb.

  • Authority

    Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Galactia monophylla Griseb.

  • Description

    Species Description - Slender, herbaceous, appressed-pubeseent with short hairs, 8 dm. long or less, twining or trailing. Stipules narrowly lanceolate or subulate, 1-3 mm. long; petioles slender, 5-15 mm. long; leaflet only 1, oblong to ovate, 1-3 cm. long, thin in texture, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rounded or subcordate at the base, glabrous or sparingly pubescent above, appressed-pubeseent beneath, the petiolule about 1 mm. long; inflorescence 1-few-flowered, not longer than the leaf; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; calyx sparingly pilose, about 6 mm. long, its. lanceolate teeth longer than the tube; corolla purplish, about 1 cm. long, the standard obovate, erect; pod 3-5 cm. long, about 5 mm. wide, appressed-pilose.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands, Great Bahama at Barnett's Point : Cuba. Slender Milk-pea.

    Cuba South America|