Plumeria obtusa L.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Apocynaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A tree, 4-6 m. high, often flowering when not more than 1.5 m. high, the stout twigs, the leaves and the inflorescence glabrous. Leaves oblong to oblong oblanceolate or oblong-obovate, 7-20 cm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, mostly narrowed or somewhat cuneate at the base, the lateral veins nearly straight and rather widely spreading, the slender petioles 2-6 cm. long; panicles few-several-flowered; peduncle as long as the leaves or shorter; pedicels short; calyx about 3 mm. long; corolla white with a yellow eye, the lobes obovate or oblong-obovate, rounded at the apex, 1.5-2 cm. long, about as long as the tube; follicles 7-12 cm. long, about 1 cm. in diameter.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands and coppices, Abaco and Great Bahama to Andros, Watling's, Providenciales, Caicos and Grand Turk : Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Mona ; recorded from Jamaica. Hitchcock's Governor's Harbor specimen referred to P. emarginata is this species. Recorded by Schoepf as P. alba L. Blunt-leaved Plumiera. Frangipanni. Catesby, 2 : pi. 93.
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