Chamaesyce articulata (Aubl.) Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Euphorbiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Chamaesyce articulata (Aubl.) Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - Shrubby, glabrous, 3-6 m. high, the branches divaricate. Leaves glabrous or slightly canescent, ligulate to oblong-linear or narrowly oblong, 2-6 cm. X 4-6 mm., rounded or narrowed at the oblique base, acute or blunt, mueronulate. entire, glaucous beneath; petioles short; stipules interpetiolar, broadly deltoid, ciliate; involucres single, terminal-axillary; peduncles more or less winged; tube thick, glabrous without, minutely appressed-silky within; involucral lobes wanting, the margin of the tube thickened; glands 4, cup-shaped, with a nipple like projection at the inner edge (resembling the tip of an elephant's proboscis); bracteoles very numerous, ligulate below, brush-like above; stigma 3-furcate above the middle; capsule glabrous, strongly 3-coecous; seed pinkashen, ovoid-quadrangular, 1.5 X 1 mm., facets transversely anastomose-rugose.

  • Distribution

    Low scrub-lands near Jacksonville, East Caicos : Puerto Rico to Anegada and St. Vincent. Bushy Spurge.

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