Helicteres jamaicensis Jacq.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Malvaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Helicteres jamaicensis Jacq.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 1.5-3 m. high, or a small tree sometimes 6-7 m. tall, the foliage densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, 5-17 cm. long, mostly acute or acuminate at the apex, cordate or sometimes rounded at the more or less oblique base, crenulate nearly all around, the stout petioles 0.5-2.5 cm. long, the upper surface darker green than the lower; peduncles stout, 2-3 cm. long, 1-few-flowered; pedicels short; calyx 1.5-2 cm. long, 5-toothed, somewhat 2-lipped, densely tomentose; petals white, inequilateral, somewhat longer than the calyx; column 6-10 cm. long, declined; stamens 10; staminodia 5; ovary tomentose; carpels about 10, spirally twisted, densely tomentose, forming a cone-like, oblong fruit 2.5-5 cm. long.

  • Distribution

    Coppices, thickets and white-lands. Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, Mangrove Cay, New Providence, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Mariguana, Atwood Cay, Great Guana Cay, Great Exuma. Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Crooked Island, Acklin's, Fortune Island, Watling's Island and the Inaguas : Cuba to Tortola, St. Martin and St. Croix ; Jamaica. Recorded by Schoepf as H. Isora L. Cow-bush. Salzbush. Blind-eye Bush.

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