Lobelia lucayana Britton & Millsp.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Campanulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, slender, pilose with strap-shaped hairs. Stems simple, scapiform, erect, 3-12 cm. high; basal leaves rosulate, small, 1-2 cm. long, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, attenuate to the petiole, crenate-dentate, the teeth mucronulate; cauline leaves infrequent, spatulate or oblanceolate, sessile or short petioled; racemes few-flowered, 2-7 cm. long; flowers long-pedicelled, the pedicels slender, much longer than the bracts; corolla blue, about 4 mm. long, bilabiate, the tube elongate-cylindrie, deeply fissured; inferior lip 3-lobed, the lobes equal; superior lip 2-lobed, the lobes lanceolate, divergent; mature capsule 3 mm. long; seeds orbicular, biconvex, about 2.5 mm. in diameter, dark and shining.
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Discussion
Type from North Caicos, in the vicinity of Kew, Wilson 7713 in herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden : shady places in rich soil, Watling's Island at the southeast end. Habitally like L. Feayana A. Gray, of southern Florida, but in our species the seeds are lenticular, dark brown and polished, while in L. Feayana they are oblong and tuberculate. Bahama Lobelia.
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Distribution
North Caicos, in the vicinity of Kew, Wilson 7713 in herb. N. Y. Botanical Garden.
Turks and Caicos Islands South America|