Gundlachia corymbosa (Urb.) Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Gundlachia corymbosa (Urb.) Britton

  • Description

    Species Description - Nearly glabrous, viscid above, bushy-branched, 6-12 dm. high. Leaves oblanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, 5-20 mm. wide, fleshy, obtuse and rounded at the apex, or emarginate or mucronulate, narrowed at the base, short-petioled, the midvein rather prominent, the lateral veins few and obscure; corymbs dense, convex, 3-10 cm. broad; heads short-peduncled; involucre about 5 mm. high, its bracts acute or aeutish, the outer ovate, the inner linear lanceolate; rays spreading, 4-5 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Sand-dunes, scrub-lands, pine-lands and borders of saline marshes. Andros, Eleuthera to Acklin's, Grand Turk and Inagua : Puerto Rico ; Anegada ; Saba ; Barbuda ; Desirade : Montserrat ; Curasao ; Aruba. Horse-bush. Broom-bush. Soldiers - Bush.

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