Comprehensive Description
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Casasia jacquinioides (Griseb.) Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 20: 208. 1919.
Alibertia jacquinioides Griseb. Cat. PL Cub. 123. 1866. Casasia parvifolia Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 43: 461. 1916.
Shrub, the branchlets slender, scaberulous when young, densely leafy at the ends; stipules deltoid-acuminate, 1-3 mm. long; petioles stout, 2 mm. long or shorter; leaf-blades oblanceolateoblong or oblong-obovate, 1.2-4 cm. long, 0.3-1.7 cm. wide, attenuate to the base, rounded to acutish at the apex, thick-coriaceous, glabrous, lustrous above, the costa impressed, the lateral veins obsolete, brownish beneath, the costa very stout and prominent, the lateral veins prominulous, 4 or 5 on each side, distant, ascending at an acute angle, the margin revolute; flowers solitary, sessile; calyx and hypanthium scaberulous, the calyx 2.5-3 mm. long, 4-lobate, the lobes subulate; corolla glabrous, the tube 4 mm. long, the 4 lobes ovate, acuminate, about as long as the tube; fruit globose, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, obtusely tuberculate; seeds about 6 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Baracoa, Oriente, Cuba.
Distribution: Mountains of Oriente, Cuba.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1921. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Casasia jacquinioides: Brief Summary
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Casasia jacquinioides is a species of plant belonging to the family Rubiaceae.
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