Ernodea nashii Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Ernodea nashii Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - Prostrate, glabrous throughout, the branches 6 dm. long, or more, the branchlets erect or ascending, 0.5-2 dm. high, the twigs very densely clothed with leaves. Leaves linear-oblaneeolate, leathery in texture, 2-2.5 cm. long, 2-3 mm. wide, mucronulate; flowering calyx 4.5 mm. long, its lobes acute, 1.5 mm. long; corolla 1.5. cm. long, its lobes white within, brown without, about one-third as long as the tube; fruit ovoid-oval, 5 mm. long, the persistent acute calyx-lobes 1.5 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    White-lands at Moujean Harbor, Little Inagua and at the west end of that island. Endemic. Nash's Ernodea.

    Inagua Bahamas South America|