Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Harrimanella stelleriana. (Pall.) Coville, Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3:
574. 1901.
Andromeda Stelleriana Pall. Fl. Ross. 1^: 58. 1788.
Erica Stelleriana Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 387. 1799.
Andromeda empetrifoUa Mert.; Bong. M^m. Acad. St.-P^tersb. VI. 2: 153. 1831.
Bryanthus Stelleri D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 160. 1834.
Menziesia Stelleriana Fisch.; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 37. 1834.
Cassiope Stelleriana DC. Prodr. 7: 611. 1839,
Plants in diffuse mats, the stems and branches resembling those of Empetrum; leaves approximate or crowded, spreading, 1.5-3.5 mm. long, the blades oblong, narrowly oblong, or cuneate, obtuse or acutish, erose; pedicels stout, about as long as the leaves or shorter in anthesis, about twice as long as the leaves in fruit; calyx 7-8 mm. wide, the lobes oval or oblong, obtuse; corolla 6-7 mm. long, the lobes much longer than the tube, suborbicular ; stamens 2.5-3 mm. long; capsules subglobose, 4-5 mm. long.
Type locality: Eastern Siberia.
Distribution: Alaska to Washington; also from eastern Siberia to northern Japan.
- 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
