Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Uva-ursi cratericola (Donn. Smith) Abrams
Arctostaphylos pungens cratericola Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 16: 13. 1891. Arctostaphylos cratericola Donn. Smith, Bot. Gaz. 55: 437. 1913.
A prostrate shrub, with more or less rooting branches, tardily exfoliating roughened bark, and sparsely puberulent branchlets; leaf-blades broadly obovate to oblanceolate, 12-18 mm. long, 10 mm. or less wide, firm-coriaceous, bright-green and shining on both surfaces, sparsely tomentose toward the base, obtuse or acute, pungently pointed; petioles flattened, 2-3 mm. long; flowers in very short subcapitate racemes; bracts triangular, acutish, 3 mm, long, puberulent ; pedicels scarcely equaling the bracts in flower, glabrous ; calyx-lobes rounded, densely short-ciliate on the margins; ovary glabrous; fruit unknown.
Type locality: On rocks in the crater of Vocan de Agua, Guatamala. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- 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
