Exogonium microdactylum (Griseb.) 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 - Glabrous, slightly succulent, the stem sometimes spinulose toward the base, 1-3.3 m. long, arising from a large tuber-like root. Leaves various, slender petioled, 3-10 cm. long, ovate to lanceolate, entire or palmately several-lobed; cymes few-flowered, short-peduneled; pedicels as long as the peduncle or shorter; sepals orbicular-ovate, about 6 mm. long; corolla scarlet to carmine, its slender tube 2.5-4 cm. long, its limb about 2.5 cm. wide, the lobes ovate; capsule subglobose, pointed, 10-12 mm. thick; seeds brown-hairy.
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Distribution
Pine-lands and scrub-lands, throughout the archipelago from Abaco and Great Bahama to Mariguana and Caicos : Florida ; Cuba. Recorded by Grisebach and by Dolley as Ipomoea arenaria Steud. Salverform Moening-gloet. Catesby 2 : pi. 87.
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