Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Annual, erect, little-branched, 1-2 m. tall, sparingly hirsute. Leaves long petioled, nearly orbicular in outline, 1-3 dm. broad, deeply 5-7-lobed, the lobes lanceolate to obovate, irregularly serrate, acute or obtuse; peduncles stout, 1-3 cm. long; braetlets linear, bristly-hirsute, about 1.5 em. long; calyx about 2 cm. long; petals broad, yellowish, purple-blotched at the base, 3-4 cm. long; capsule angled, 2 dm. long or less, long-tipped.
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Distribution
Wast-lands, spontaneous after cultivation ; Cat Island and Fortune Island : spontaneous in most tropical and subtropical regions ; native of the Old World tropics. Okra.
Cat Island Bahamas South America|