Metastelma bahamense Griseb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Apocynaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Metastelma bahamense Griseb.

  • Description

    Species Description - A slender glabrous vine, sometimes 3 m. long. Leaves oblong, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, acute or mucronate at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, the petiole 3-7 mm. long; cymes few-several-flowered, short-peduncled; calyx-lobes oblong to ovate, acutish or obtuse; corolla deeply 5-cleft, 3-5 mm. long, its lobes oblong, papillose-puberulent on the inner side; corona-segments oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, about as long as the short stipitate gynostegium; follicles linear, 4-7 cm. long.

  • Discussion

    Prof. Coker's doubtful record of 21. brachystephanum, Griseb. probably refers to this species ; his specimen is imperfect. Referred by Hitchcock to 21. Schlcchtendahlii Dene. Bahama Metastelma.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands and white-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and the Berry Islands to Mariguana and the Anguilla Isles. Florida ; Cuba.

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