Kallstroemia maxima (L.) Torr. & A.Gray

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Zygophyllaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Kallstroemia maxima (L.) Torr. & A.Gray

  • Description

    Species Description - Branches slender, prostrate, 1.5-4.5 dm. long. Leaves short-petioled; stipules subulate; leaflets 3-5 pairs, oval or oblong, inequilateral, rounded or subcordate at the base, 8-20 mm. long; peduncles slender, 1.2-5 cm. long in fruit; flowers 2.5 cm. broad, or less; sepals linear-lanceolate, very pubescent, persistent, shorter than the petals; fruit ovoid-conic, about 6 mm. in diameter, about as long as the stout persistent style, the segments tubercled.

  • Distribution

    A weed in waste and cultivated soils, New Providence and Fortune Island; Georgia and Florida ; 'West Indies ; Mexico to Colombia. Greater Caltrop.

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