Buchnera elongata Sw.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Scrophulariaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Buchnera elongata Sw.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stems rough-hispidulous, 2-5 dm. high, simple or branched above, slender. Leaves scabrous, sparingly toothed or entire, the basal ones obovate or oblong, short-petioled, 1-3 cm. long, those of the stem oblong to linear, 1.5-8 cm. long; spikes slender, distantly-flowered; calyx 5-6 mm. long, hispidulous, its upper lobes triangular, acute; corolla blue or white, 9-12 mm. long, its tube somewhat pubescent; capsules ovoid, 5-7 mm. long.

  • Discussion

    VERBASCUM pulverulextum Mill, is recorded from Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, by Herrick. The specimen cannot be found among his plants nor has any species of the genus been seen by our collectors in the archipelago.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands and savannas. Great Bahama. Andros and New Providence : Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; continental tropical America. Buchnera.

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