Guettarda inaguensis Britton
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Rubiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - A small tree, up to 4 m. high, with slender stiff straight glabrous branches, the young twigs tomentose. Leaves membranous, broadly elliptic, 3-5 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, cordate to truncate at the base, sparingly pubescent with long scattered hairs above, densely tomentulose, finely reticulate-veined and appressed-villous on the midvein beneath, the rather stout, villous petioles 5-10 mm. long; stipules ovate, obtuse, tomentulose and villous, about 8 mm. long, deciduous; flowers solitary, sessile in the axils: calyx narrowly campanulate, 2-lobed, 5-6 mm. long, densely pubescent; corolla nearly 3 cm. long, densely pubescent, its very slender tube 5-6 times as long as the oblong lobes; fruit subglobose, densely puberulent, 10-11 mm. in diameter.