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Castelaria peninsularis (Rose) Small
Caslela peninsularis Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12 : 278. 1909.
A much-branched, decidedly thorny shrub, with yellowish-velutinous branches and twigs, the thorns partially glabrous near the tip. Leaf-blades oblong, obovate, or cuueate, 1-2 cm. long, rounded or truncate and mucronate at the apex, velutinous, especially beneath, entire, undulate, or shallowly toothed, markedly petioled ; flowers decidedly pedicelled on the short inflorescence-rachis ; sepals broadly deltoid, finely pubescent and ciliolate ; petals oblong, red, 3 mm. long; drupes not seen.
Type locality : Sau Jose del Cabo, Lower California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
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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
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