Lantana balsamifera Britton

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Verbenaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Lantana balsamifera Britton

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 1.6 m. high or less, forming large masses, with a balsamic odor, the slender bluntly angular branches ascending, puberulent; the internodes short. Leaves elliptic to ovate elliptic or nearly orbicular, 5-10 mm. long, 5 mm. wide or less, puberulent, acute or obtuse, firm, crenulate, rugose-reticulated above, paler and rather strongly veined beneath, the petioles 1-1.5 mm. long; peduncles slender, thickened above, 8-15 mm. long in fruit; heads about 6 mm. broad, several-flowered; bracts lanceolate, puberulent, obtusish, 2.5-3 mm. long; calyx 2-toothed, pubescent, 1 mm. long, its teeth blunt; corolla purple, its slightly gibbous tube about 3 mm. long, its spreading limb with 5 unequal obtuse lobes; stamens borne near the top of the corolla-tube, the anthers as long as the filaments or longer.

  • Discussion

    Scrub-lands, Little Inagua, at Moujean Harbor. Endemic. Inagua Sage-bush. A small-leaved shrub, growing in sand alongside typical L. involucrata on Whale Cay, Berry Islands, appearing very distinct from it, and a similar specimen from Eleuthera, first referred by us to this species, may represent another race or species; these specimens are barren.

  • Distribution

    Whale Cay, Berry Islands, Eleuthera.

    Berry Islands Bahamas South America| Eleuthera Bahamas South America|