Pavonia spinifex (L.) Cav.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A branching shrub, 1-3 m. tall, hirsute and strigillose. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 5-10 cm. long, acute or somewhat acuminate, doubly crenatedentate, truncate or subcordate at the base, the petioles densely pubescent; peduncles axillary, much longer than the petioles; bractlets of the involueel. 5, linear to lanceolate, acute, nearly 1 cm. long; calyx about as long as the bractlets, its lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; petals yellow, 2.5 cm. long, euneate; carpels 5-6 mm. high, with 1 medial and 2 lateral retrorsely barbed awns.
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Distribution
Waste lands. New Providence and Long Island : Bermuda : South Carolina to Florida ; the West Indies and tropical continental America. Pavonia.
New Providence Bahamas South America| Long Island Bahamas South America| Bermuda South America| South Carolina United States of America North America| Florida United States of America North America| West Indies|