Lycium spathulifolium Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Solanaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lycium spathulifolium Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - A glabrous shrub, 1.3 m. high or less, with long slender drooping branches, some of the twigs tipped by spines 2-4 mm. long, the bark gray. Leaves 2-4 together at the nodal cushions, or solitary, spatulate, fleshy, entire, 6-15 mm. long, 1.5-3 mm. wide, obtuse, long-attenuate from above the middle to the base; flowers few, solitary; peduncle filiform, 5 mm. long, gradually thickened above; calyx campannlate, 2-2.5 mm. long, somewhat scurfy, its teeth broadly ovate, obtuse, whitish-lanate; corolla funnelform, white, its tube 4-5 mm. long, its 4 oblong obtusish lobes two thirds as long as the tube.

  • Distribution

    Coppices at upper savannah, Inagua ; rocky plains, East Caicos and Ambergris Cay. Endemic. Inagua Lycium.

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