Sachsia bahamensis Urb.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Sachsia bahamensis Urb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - Scape slender, erect, villous at the base, rough-glandular above, bearing 2-5 very small and distant leaves. Basal leaves several, spatulate to oblongobovate, firm in texture, 7 cm. long or less, obtuse at the apex, narrowed at the base into short petioles, repand-dentate, minutely glandular and sparingly pubescent beneath; inflorescence loosely corymbose-paniculate; peduncles slender, mostly longer than the heads; involucre about 7 mm. high, its bracts in about 6 series, the outer ovate to lanceolate, densely glandular, the inner narrowly linear; outer flowers in several series, their filiform corollas 3-toothed; achenes linear, striate, about 2 mm. long; short-pilose; pappus yellowish-white, about 4 mm. long.

  • Distribution

    Pine-lands and savannas of Great Bahama, Andros and New Providence : Florida. Bahama Sachsia.

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