Erithalis fruticosa L.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Erithalis fruticosa L.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 6 dm. to 4 m. high, or a tree up to 8 m. high, with terete branches. Leaves elliptic to oblong, obovate or suborbicular, subcoriaceous, dark green, shining, 4-15 cm. long, rounded or short-pointed at the apex, mostly narrowed at the base, the petioles 4-16 mm. long; stipules connate, mucronate, the sheath persistent, 1-2 mm. long; panicles peduncled, severalmany-flowered; calyx 1-2 mm. long, the limb repand-denticulate; corolla 4-10 mm. long, deeply 5-parted, its lobes linear-oblong; anthers as long, as the filaments or longer; drupe globose or depreased-globose, 5-10-furrowed, 2-5 mm. in diameter, black when mature. Consists of many races, differing in size of the plant, leaves, fruit and flowers, and length of the calyx-limb.

  • Discussion

    Scrub-lands, coppices and coastal thickets, throughout the archipelago Florida ; West Indies; Central America. In Bulletin N. Y. Hot. Gard. 3: 452, E. odorifera was referred to as distinct from E. fruticosa, but the differences observed do not now appear to be sufficient to maintain the two as species. Referred to E. rotundata Griseb. by Mrs. Northrop. Black Tobch.

  • Distribution

    Florida ; West Indies; Central America

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