Guettarda krugii Urb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Guettarda krugii Urb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 1-4 m. high, in Puerto Rico sometimes becoming a tree up to 10 m. high, the twigs stout, the young ones densely tomentulose, the older gray and glabrous. Stipules ovate, obtuse or aeutish, brownish villous, deciduous; leaves ovate to suborbicular or elliptic-obovate, coriaceous, or those of shoots subchartaceous, obtuse, rounded or aeutish at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, smooth and glabrous above, densely pubescent, strongly and densely reticulate-veined beneath, 3-11 cm. long, the stout, villous and tomentose petioles 6-15 mm. long, or those of shoots larger and longer-petioled; cymes 1-few-flowered in the upper axils; peduncles* 1 cm. long or less; calyx brownish villous, 5-6 mm. long, its limb irregularly subtruncate; corolla white, appressed-villous, about 1.5 cm. long, its lobes about one-fourth as long as the tube; fruit globose, densely tomentulose, 9-12 mm. in diameter.

  • Discussion

    Scrub-lands and rocky coppices, Abaco, Eleuthera, Exuma Chain, Cat Island and Watling's to Grand Turk, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Puerto Rico. Recorded by Hitchcock as G. calyptrata A. Rich. Some of our specimens are barren and are referred to this species with hesitation. Kuuu's Velvet-seed. Fkogwood.

  • Distribution

    Abaco, Eleuthera, Exuma Chain, Cat Island and Watling's to Grand Turk, Ambergris Cay and Inagua : Puerto Rico.

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