Pedilanthus bahamensis Millsp.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Pedilanthus bahamensis Millsp.

  • Description

    Species Description - Glabrous, 1-1.5 m. high, leafless, irregularly branched, the branches gray, roughened with transverse ridges. Inflorescence terminal; bracts cucullate, one third to one quarter the length of the peduncles; involucres about 9 mm. long, puberulent, madder-lake in color; inferior cleft of the tube shallow, the superior fissure open half the length of the tube; main lobes blunt, finely erose-lacerate, the two lateral lobes minute, free only at the apex, the fifth lobe flabelliform, free half its length; anthers glabrous; female pedicel puberulent; style very slightly trifid; appendix narrow, about one half the length of the tube, sarcous, usually sigmoid, the lobe blunt, slightly notched, strongly gibbous at the base; glands 2, stipitate; capsule flattened-globose; seeds trigonal, olivaceous, the dorsal angle quite prominent, apiculate and with a minute raised pimple at the apex, 3 X 2.5 mm.

  • Distribution

    Stony floor of scrub-lands, Deep Creek, Andros, Atwood Cay, Acklin's Island, Inagua, South Caicos and Grand Turk to Salt Cay. Endemic. Bahama Fiddle flower. Monkey-fiddle.

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