Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Malpighia urens L,. Sp. PI. 426. 1753
Malpighia mariinicensis Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 21. 1760.
Malpighia mariinicensis jamaicensis Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 13. 1899.
Malpighia mariinicensis Jussieuana Urban & Niedzu.; Niedzu. Gen. Malp. 13. 1899.
Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic to oblong-ovate orobovate, 2.5-9 cm. long, obtuse, acute, or sometimes slightly acuminate, undulate, bright-green and ultimately glabrous above, paler and permanently pubescent beneath with scattered hairs, short-petioled ; cymes sessile or nearly so, the branches sparingly pubescent or glabrous; sepals oblong to lanceolate, 2.5-5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the glands fully one half the length of the sepalbody ; corolla pink or purplish, 16-20 mm. wide, the larger petals 7-9 mm. long ; drupes subglobose, S-10 mm. in diameter, red.
Type locality : Jamaica.
Distribution : Jamaica and the Lesser Antilles.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
