Polypremum procumbens L.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Loganiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Polypremum procumbens L.

  • Description

    Species Description - Stems tufted, somewhat rigid, 4-angled, 5-30 cm. long. Leaves 1-4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, acute, sessile, minutely rough-toothed on the margins, often with smaller ones fascicled in their axils; flowers solitary, sessile in the forks of the cymes and along their branches, leafy-bracted; corolla 2 mm. long or less; capsule crustaceous, didymous, about 2 mm. in diameter, slightly 2-lobed, the lobes obtuse.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands, Inagua at Matthew Town : New Jersey to Kentucky, Florida, Mexico and Colombia; Cuba; Jamaica. Polypremum.

    Inagua Bahamas South America| New Jersey United States of America North America| Kentucky United States of America North America| México Mexico North America| Colombia South America| Cuba South America| Jamaica South America|