Heliotropium diffusum Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Boraginaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Heliotropium diffusum Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - Perennial by a slender deep root. Stem slender, 4 cm. high or less, the branches diffusely spreading, very slender, longer than the stem, 8 cm. long or less, appressed-strigose; leaves linear, 3-4 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, sessile, acute, appressed-strigose; flowers white, minute, enclosed in the tufts of upper leaves; sepals lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, about 2 mm. long, very hairy; ovary deeply 4-lobed; fruit 4-lobed, depressed, about 1 mm. wide, and about one half as high as wide, the very short style capped by a broad abruptly tipped stigma.

  • Distribution

    Moist scrub-lands. Rum Cay, Acklin's, Mariguana, South Caicos, Grand Turk, Sand Cay, Little Inagua. Endemic. Diffuse Low Heliotrope.

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