Aster bracei Britton ex Small

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Aster bracei Britton ex Small

  • Description

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    Species Description - Annual? Fleshy, glabrous, roots several coarse fibres; stem rather slender, often zigzag, branched above, the branches divaricately ascending; leaves all narrowly linear, thick, entire, acute, somewhat narrowed toward the clasping base, the lower ones and those of shoots 10 em. long or less, 3-4 mm. wide, the upper much shorter, those of the branches few, linear-subulate, very small; heads mostly solitary at the ends of the slender branches; involucre campanulate-cylindric, 3-4.5 mm. high; bracts in 3 or 4 series, light green, linear to linear lanceolate, abruptly acute or short-acuminate; rays pinkish, 4-5 mm. long; achenes 1-1.5 mm. long, rough on the angles.

  • Distribution

    Brackish marshes and savannas, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros, New Providence: Florida; Cuba. Recorded as A. tenuifolius by Coker. Brace's Aster.

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