Psychotria undata Jacq.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Rubiaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Psychotria undata Jacq.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A shrub, 0.5-3 m. high, the twigs, leaves and inflorescence usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, (5-12 cm. long, strongly pinnately veined, acuminate at the apex, narrowed at the base, bright green above, pale-green beneath, the slender petioles- 15 mm. long or less, the stipules connate-sheathing, deciduous; panicle sessile, several many-flowered; flowers sessile or very nearly so; calyx about 1 mm. long, its limb nearly truncate; corolla white, about 4 mm. long, its lobes shorter than the tube; drupe red, ellipsoid, blunt, 5-7 mm. long; pyrenae grooved.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands, scrub-lands and coppices, throughout the archipelago from Abaco, Great Bahama, the Biminis and Andros to Watling's and Long Island : Florida and the West Indies ; Central America. asiatica of Schoepf. Wild Coffee.

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