Tetrazygia bicolor (Mill.) Cogn.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Melastomataceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A shrub or small tree up to 6 m. high, with scaly bark, the young twigs scurfy. Leaves lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 0.8-2 dm. long, strongly 3- ribbed and with many widely spreading lateral veins, entire, acuminate at the apex, mostly obtuse at the base, green above, whitish-scurfy beneath, the slender scurfy petioles 2-4 cm. long; panicles peduncled, 1-2 dm. long, several-many-flowered; pedicels slender, 5-10 mm. long; calyx-limb subtruncate; petals 4, white, 7-8. mm. long; berry subglobose, purple or black, 8-10 mm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands, pine-lands and coppices, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence and Eleuthera : Florida : Cuba. Reported by Grisebach and by Dolley as T. angustiflora Griseb. and by Schoepf as Melastoma discolor L. Tetrazygia.
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