Comprehensive Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par North American Flora
Azalea austrina Small, Fl. SE. U. S. ed. 2. 1356. 1913
A shrub mostly 3 m. tall or less, with irregular branches and softly pubescent and usually
glandular twigs; leaf-blades oval, obovate, oblong, or oblong-spatulate, 2.5-9 cm. long, acute
or abruptly gland-tipped, rather firm in age, finely pubescent, usually permanently so, cillate,
short-petioled ; flowerclusters expanding before the leaves; pedicels glandular-pubescent;
calyx-lobes deltoid to triangular-lanceolate, acute, glandular-ciliate ; corolla yellow or orange,
2-3 cm. long, the tube scarcely dilated up to the limb, finely glandular-pubescent, the lobes
broad, acute or abruptly short-acuminate; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long; capsules rather slender,
slightly narrowed upward, 2-2.5 cm. long, finely glandular-pubescent.
Type locality: Chattahoochee, Florida. Distribution: Chattahoochee region, middle Florida.
- citation bibliographique
- 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
