Comprehensive Description
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tarjonnut North American Flora
Leucothoe axillaris (Lam.) D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour
17: 159. 1834.
Andromeda axillaris Lam. Hncyc. 1: 157. 1783. Lyonia axillaris K. Koch, Dendr. 2^: 124. 1872. Leucothoe platyphylla Small, Fl. SB. U. S. 886. 1903.
An evergreen shrub 1-2 m. tall, with puberulent twigs; leaf-blades leathery, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, or oval to sub orbicular, 4-15 cm. long, abruptly acute or shortacuminate, rather remotely serrate, slightly revolute, often sparingly pubescent beneath, acute to rounded at the base, the petioles 0.5-1 cm. long; panicles axillary, 2-7 cm. long, densely flowered; bracts broadly ovate, 2-3 mm. long, acute; pedicels 1-4 mm. long, minutely pubescent; calyx 5-6 mm. broad, the lobes ovate to orbicular-ovate, 2 mm. long, acute; corolla white, cylindricovoid, 6-7 mm. long; capsules spheroidal, 6-7 mm. broad.
Type locality: North America.
Distribution: Virginia to Florida and Mississippi.
- bibliografinen lainaus
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
