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Remirea maritima Aubl.
“Planta perennis; radice longâ, ramosâ, nodosâ,
solidâ, repente, internodiis squamulâ obvolutis;
nodis fingulis radiculas capillaceas, ramosas, &
culmos per intervalla emittentibus.
Culmi sunt semipedales, in summitate
ramosi, squamulis in parte inferiore, seu foliolis
amplexantibus, vestiuntur..
Folia ramorum oblonga, angusta, rigida, stria-
ta, acuta, ad margines aspera, basi vaginantia.
Flores in paniculam subsessilem, terminalem,
brevem, & densam congesti.
Radices contusae, aut masticatae, gratum
odorem aromaticum exhalant.
Floret fructumque fert, variis anni tempori-
bus.
Habitat in arenosis maritmis Caïennae &
Guianae.”
Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée Aublet, 1775
Prancha representativa de Remirea maritima
Representative board of Remirea maritima
Aublet, 1775
