Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Mascagnia buchii Urban & Niedzu.; Urban, Symb
Ant. 2 : 452. 1901. Leaf-blades linear to linear-lanceolate, oblong-linear, or oblong-ovate, 1.5-6 cm. long, acute or slightly acuminate, shining, reticulate, sparingly, but inconspicuously, fine-pubescent, bright-green on both sides, short-petioled ; flower-stalks stout, stiff ; sepals ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, glabrous or nearly so, the glands fully one half as long as the sepal-body ; petals blue, 4.5-6.5 mm. long, with suborbicular blades erose-denticulate near the base ; samaras orbicular-obcordate, 9-11 mm. wide, the lateral wings undulate or cristate, the dorsal wing keel-like.
Type locality: Near Gonai'ves, Haiti. Distribution : Haiti.
- 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
