Comprehensive Description
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anglais
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fourni par North American Flora
Larrea jamesii (T. & G.) Britton
Hoffmanseggia Jamesii T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1 : 393. 1840.
Pomaria Jamesii Walp. Rep. 1: 811. 1842.
Hoffmanseggia Jamesii Popenoensis E. M. Fisher. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 150. 1892.
Caesalpinia Jamesii E. M. Fisher. Bot. Gaz. 18: 123. 1893.
Herbaceous or suffrutescent, with a woody spindle-shaped root 1-4 dm. long; stems 2-4 dm. high, appressed-canescent and glandular. Stipules linear, entire, 2-3 mm. long, caducous; pinnae 5-7; leaflets 4-10 pairs, ovate to short-oblong, 4-5 mm. long, canescent or glabrate above, canescent and black-glandular-dotted beneath; racemes lateral, 5-10 cm. long, 5-15flowered; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, pubescent and black-glandular; petals glandular, a little longer than the calyx; stamens shorter than the calyx; legume 2-2.5 cm. long, lunate, 2or 3-seeded, cuneate at base, acute, black-dotted and with tufts of stellate hairs.
Type loc.lity: .Sources of the Canadian River [New Mexico). Distribution: Kansas to Texas, Colorado, Arizona, and California.
- citation bibliographique
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
