Tournefortia scabra Lam.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Erect to scandent shrub, 2-5 m in length. Stems cylindrical, slender, < 5 mm in diameter, strigose when young, striate and glabrescent when mature. Leaves alternate; blades 2-5 x 0.5- 1 .2(1.7) cm, linear, oblong, or narrowly lanceolate, rigid-coriaceous, the apex acute, obtuse, rounded, or retuse, the base obtuse, rounded, or subcordiform, the margins revolute, undulate; upper surface scabrous, with the venation sunken; lower surface scabrous-pubescent, with the reticulate venation prominent; petioles strigose, 1.5-5 mm long. Flowers few, sessile, in scorpioid cymes. scarcely branched, terminal, 5 cm or less long, with strigose axes. Calyx green, crateriform, strigulose, the sepals ovate, ca. 2 mm long; corolla white or yellowish, urceolate-tubular, ca. 2.5 mm long, the tube strigose on the distal portion, the lobes ovate, very short. Drupes subovoid, 5-6 mm in diameter, white.
Phenology - Flowering and fruiting from November to March.
Conservation Status - Native; uncommon.