Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Enantiophylla heydeana Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 18: 56. 1893
Plants 12-60 dm. high, glabrous or scaberulous throughout, the branches numerous, opposite; leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 6-20 cm. long, 5-27 cm. broad, the leaflets 2.5-14 cm. long, 1-6 cm. broad, finely serrate and often lobed; peduncles 3.5-8 cm. long; involucral bracts shorter than the rays; bractlets of the involucel about equaling the flowers; rays 14-20, subequal, 1.5-4 cm. long; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; fruit 10-13 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad.
Type locality: Santiago, Zacatepequez, Guatemala, 6500 feet, Rosalia Gomez (J. Donnell Smith 788; fruit).
Distribution: Jalisco and Nayarit to Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador (Hinton 6562,
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
