Rivina humilis L.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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The Flora and Ethnobotany of Long Island, Bahamas
Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU')
Species	Rmnh humilis	Au: L.
Family	Phytoloccaceae
Common Name Wild tomato
Description	Small herbaceous shrub. Fruits are fushia red berries and flowers
have 4 greenish white sepals.
Location/Habitat Between Millers and Whitehouse settlements, along a road that leads to
the Atlantic ("North") side of the island. Found in a banaa hole, up on a
hill on the south side of the road, in a patchy vegetated low dry evergreen
forest/coppice.
Latitude	23°24’ 25” N	Longitude 75°09’ 35” W
Uses/Comments No uses known.
Collector(s)	Laurel Richey
Collection No 98-343 Duplicates 5 Date December 16, 1998
Plants Dried Using a Kerosene Heater
Vouchers for Laurel Richey's PhD Dissertation
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