Toxicodendron radicans (L.) Kuntze
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Anacardiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A woody vine, climbing by numerous aerial rootlets, or bushy and erect, the stem sometimes 7-10 cm. in diameter. Leaves petioled; leaflets ovate or rhombic, 2.5-15 cm. long, entire or sparingly dentate or sinuate, acute or shortacuminate, the lateral sessile or short-stalked, inequilateral, the terminal one stalked; flowers green, 3 mm. broad, in loose axillary panicles 2-8 cm. long; drupes subglobose, 3-5 mm. in diameter, grayish-white.
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Distribution
Moist depressions in pine- and scrub-lands, and in savannas, Andros. Abaco, Great Bahama, North Cat Cay and New Providence : continental North America, south to Mexico. Recorded by Dolley as Rhus Toxicodendron L. Poison Ivy.
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