Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Polygala propinqua (Britton) Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 16. 1916.
Polvgala diversifolia Chod. Mem. Soc. Phys. Gen&ve 31 (2) 2 : 10, in part. 1893. Not P. diversifolia
' L. 1753. Badiera cubensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 37: 362, in part. 1910. Not Polygala cubensis Chod.
1893. Badiera propinqua Britton. Bull. Torrey Club 42: 495. 1915. Polygala slipitata Blake, Contr. Gray Herb. 47: 15, in part. 1916.
Much branched shrub or small tree, 2-5 m. high; branchlets strigillose or hirtellous; leaves oval or oval-ovate, 2.3-4.5 cm. long, 1.1-2.7 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at apex, at base cuneate or rounded-cuneate, strigillose but smooth above, beneath minutely punctate-strigillose but smooth; petioles 1.5-3 mm. long; peduncles 1 mm. long; racemes few-flowered, the axis 1-3 mm. long; pedicels strigillose, 1.5-2.5 mm. long; flowers white; sepals broadly ovate, rounded, 1.2 mm. long; wings deltoid-ovate, 1.5 mm. long, 1.2 mm. wide; keel pubescent near middle, 3 mm. long; capsule transversely oblong, lobed for about one-third its length, the lobes divergent, at maturity sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, 7-7.5 mm. long, 9.5-11 mm. wide, on a stipe 2-2.5 mm. long; seed 5.3 mm. long; aril irregularly lobulate or merely sinuate, 3.2 mm. high.
Type locality: Los Palacios to San Juan de Zayas, Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Distribution: Pinar del Rio. Cuba, and Isle of Pines.
- 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