Evolvulus bahamensis House
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Convolvulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Shrubby, erect, intricately branched, appressed-pubescent, 4-10 dm. high, the branches wiry. Leaves linear, 6-15 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, ascending or appressed; flowers axillary, solitary, on peduncles about 5 mm. long; calyx lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 2-3 mm. long; corolla white, 1.2-2 em. broad, its limb nearly entire; stamens nearly as long as the corolla.
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Distribution
Rocky plains and scrub-lands, Eleuthera, Conception Island. Watling's, Mariguana, North Caicos, Ambergris Cav, Great Ragged Island, Fortune Island, Crooked Island, Acklin's and Inagua. Endemic. Referred to E. arbuscula Poir. in Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 450, 1905 ; also by Hitchcock, by Coker and by Grisebach. Bahama Evolvulus.
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