Croton lobatus 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 low herb, 3-6 dm. high, the branches and branchlets pilose, the longer hairs simple. Leaves membranous, 3-5-lobed, glabrous, papillate, the segments elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, serrate; petioles nearly as long as the blades. Female flowers: calyx-lobes spathulate-lanceolate, glanduliferous and with a few long acicular hairs; styles free or nearly so, 3-8-fid at the apex. Male flowers: sepals glabrous; petals lanceolate. Capsule globose-ellipsoid, the cocci with a number of scattered acicular hairs; seeds ochre-color, quadrangular cylindric, 5 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, the dorsum apiculate at the caruncle, all the facets marked by incomplete and more or less transverse ridges.
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Distribution
Adventitious in waste places, New Providence, near Nassau : West Indies ; continental tropical America. Lobed Croton.
New Providence Bahamas South America| West Indies|