Croton lucidus L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A broad shrub 1.5-2 m. high; branchlets glabrous or glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 5-15 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, glabrous or pubescent, minutely pellucid-punctate, entire, narrowing to a roundish base and apex; petiole about one-fourth the length of the blade; stipules ephemeral. Inflorescence in terminal racemes. Male flowers: sepals ovate, imbricative, much smaller than those of the female, ciliate on the margin; female flowers: calyxlobes oblong, blunt, margin reduplicate, somewhat persistent at the base; styles 4-partite, the branches bifid to near the base. Seeds ovoid-oblong, shining, flatfish on the ventrum, the dorsum convex.
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Distribution
Rocky thickets and openings, throughout the archipelago from Great Sturrup Tay south to Grand Turk Island: Cuba; Puerto Rico; Jamaica and the Caymans. Croton glabell-um of Schoepf. Fire-bush.
Grand Turk Bahamas South America| Cuba South America| Puerto Rico South America| Jamaica South America|