Acalypha chamaedrifolia (Lam.) Müll.Arg.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Acalypha chamaedrifolia (Lam.) Müll.Arg.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A prostrate herbaceous or suffrutescent perennial, pubescent or glabrate, with branches 1-3 dm. long. Leaves ovate, .8 X .5-3.5 X 1-5 cm., base blunt or rounded, apex acute, margin crenate-dentate; petioles about one-third the length of the blades; inflorescence in cylindric terminal subsessile androgynous racemes, male above and few-flowered female below, sometimes with similar superaxillary racemes or female clusters, the flowers sessile; bracts roundish, dentate or crenate, the teeth ovate, seeds ovate-globose, apiculate, brown, 3x1 mm.; testa very minutely pitted-cellular; caruncle longitudinal, waxen, wrinkled.

  • Distribution

    Red-lands and rocky coppices, Eleuthera : Florida ; Cuba ; Hispaniola to Tortola and Guadeloupe ; Jamaica. Prostrate Acalypha.

    Eleuthera Bahamas South America| Florida United States of America North America| Cuba South America| West Indies| Tortola Virgin Islands South America| Guadeloupe South America| Jamaica South America|