Varronia globosa Jacq.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A usually much-branched shrub, 1-3 m. high, the slender twigs hispid. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 1.5-6 cm. long, rather coarsely serrate, short-petioled, rough and papillose-hispid above, pubescent and strongly veined beneath, acute or bluntish at the apex, narrowed or obtuse at the base; flowers in dense globular peduncled heads, the peduncles mostly shorter than the leaves; calyx hispid, 5-cleft, 6-8 mm. long, its teeth nearly filiform; corolla white, about 6 mm. long; drupe red, about 4 mm. long.
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Distribution
Scrub-lands. Andros, New Providence. Long Island, and Watling's : Florida ; Cuba to Puerto Rico and Trinidad ; Jamaica ; Cayman Islands ; Curacao ; Mexico to northern South America. Capitate Varronia.
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