Badiera oblongata Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Polygalaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Badiera oblongata Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 1.5 m. high, or less, with long slender appressed-puberulent branches. Leaves coriaceous, dull, 1.7-3 cm. long, 0.8-1.8 cm. wide, oblong or obovate-oblong, somewhat revolute-margined in drying, the midvein rather prominent, the lateral veins few and inconspicuous, sparingly pubescent with short appressed hairs on both sides when young, becoming glabrous or nearly so when old, rather bright-green above, pale-green beneath, acute at the base, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, the pubescent petioles about 2 mm. long; flowers clustered in the axils, puberulent, on pedicels 2 mm. long or less; exterior sepals about 0.7 mm. long, suborbicular, green; corolla white, about 2.5 mm. long; carina unguiculate, obtuse; capsule nearly triangular, shallowly emarginate, about 8 mm. long and wide, subacute at the base.

  • Distribution

    Scrub-lands and coppices, Andros, New Providence ; Cat Island : Acklin's Island ; Crooked Island : Watling's Island ; North Caicos ; Providenciales : Cuba. Recorded by Dolley as Badiera domingensis Jacq. Oblong-leaved Badieka.

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