Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Castelaria macrophylla (Urban) Small
Caslela macrophylla Urban, Symb. Ant. 5 : 377. 1908.
A straggling often much-branched shrub with green or greenish puberulent branchlets and twigs. Leaf-blades oblong or elliptic, varying to broadest above the middle or below it, often acute at both ends, gland-tipped, veiny beneath and 1-3 cm. long on flowering and fruiting branches, less veiny, rounded, and mucronate and larger on shoots, all thickmargined, decidedly petioled, the midrib beneath and the petiole with spreading hairs ; flowers short-pedicelled ; sepals ovate or triangular, finely pubescent ; petals pink or red, oblong to obovate, about 3 mm. long ; drupes red, much flattened, 12-15 mm. long, reticulate.
Type locality : Long Mountain, Jamaica. Distribution : Jamaica.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
