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Galactia bahamensis
Galactia bahamensis
Urb.
Common Names:
Bahama Milk Pea
Family:
Fabaceae
Habit:
Galactia bahamensis
grows as a climbing or trailing vine becoming woody with age to 2 meters in length. The trifoliate leaves are arranged alternately. The shiny leaflets are to 3 cm in length, oval, with a rounded-retuse apex.
The complete, perfect, zygomorphic flowers are arranged in few flowered racemes. The calyx has 5 fused green petals. The corolla has 5 rose-purple petals, the upper enlarged to form a striated banner and the lower 2 fused to form the keel. There are 10 diadelphous stamens. The ovary is superior and has a single locule. The fruit is a legume at maturity.
Habitat:
Galactia bahamensis
grows in and along the edges of Dry Broadleaf Evergreen Formation – Shrublands (scrublands) and Dwarf Shrublands near coastal zones.
Distribution:
Galactia bahamensis is endemic to the Lucayan Archipelago occurring in the south central and southern island groupings.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage:
Galactia bahamensis
is not known to be used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.
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