Wild Flowering Plants
| Zygophyllaceae family Guaiacum officinale Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 381. 1753. Gayak. Lignum vitae. Indigenous tree of extreme deciduous seasonal forest. A few trees left near La Bourne, Monchy. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, South America Also a cultivated ornamental. Local medicinal uses Under threat of local extinction because of habitat disturbance and loss. |
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