Thunbergia fragrans Roxb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Acanthaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Thunbergia fragrans Roxb.

  • Description

    Species Description - A slender, finely pubescent vine, often 2 m. long, usually climbing. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 cm. long, remotely few-toothed toward the base or entire, acuminate at the apex, subtruneate, hastate or cordate at the base, the slender petioles 14 cm. long; peduncles rather stout, 2-7 cm. long; bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, pubescent, acuminate, 1.5-2 cm. long; calyx deeply cleft, much shorter than the bracts; corolla white, 2.5-3 cm. long, its lobes crenate, nearly as long as the tube; capsule depressed-globose, pubescent, about 8 mm. in diameter, tipped by a stout subulate beak 1-1.5 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    Spontaneous after cultivation, New Providence near Nassau : Cuba to Puerto Rico, Tortola and Trinidad ; Jamaica. Naturalized from Asia. White Thunbergia.

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