Machaonia cymosa (Sw.) Griseb.

Machaonia cymosa (Sw.) Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 348. 1861
Lip pi a cymosa Sw. Prodr. 93. 1 .
Machaonia cymosa var. glabrescens S. Moore, Jour. Bot . 68: 1 12. 1930.
A low shrub, tinbranches gray or reddish-brown, the branchlets slender, sparsely puberuItut or glabrous, sometimes spinose, the internodes short; stipules 1-1.5 mm. long, triangular, acute; leaves opposite, the petioles 1-2 mm. long, the blades orbicular, oval, or rhombicovate, 0.8-2.5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. wide, rounded to acutish at the base, rounded to acute at the apex, sometimes apiculate, chartaceous, green abovi scaberulous, paler be-
neath, scabrous or short-pilose when young, becoming glabrate, the Lateral nerves obscure,
3 or 4 on each side, arcuate; inflorescence many-flowered, 1-2 cm. broad, the branche puberulent or short-pilose, the flowers sessile or short pedicellate, the bracts linear, often foliaceous; hypanthium turbinate, 1.5-2 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, the I calyx-lobes narrowly triangular, 1-1.5 mm. long, very acute, glabrous; corolla 2.5-3 mm. long, glabrous outside, the lobes oval, less than half as long as the tube, puberulent within; anthers exserted; fruit narrowly obpyramidal, 6 mm. long or shorter.
Type locality: Jamaica. I Distribution : Jamaica.
Ii.i. i rsTRATlONS: Sloane, Hist. Jam. />/. 174, f. 3, 4; Syrnb. Ant. 5: 513. /:
The form described as var. glabrest rus S. Moore is merely somewhat less abundantly pubescent, especially in the inflorescence, than the type, and is scarcely worths of even varietal rank.

Machaonia cymosa är en måreväxtart som först beskrevs av Olof Swartz, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach.

Machaonia cymosa ingår i släktet Machaonia och familjen måreväxter. Artens utbredningsområde är Jamaica. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

Machaonia cymosa là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Thiến thảo. Loài này được (Sw.) Griseb. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1861.