Orange Gooseberry

Grossularia pinetorum (Greene) Coville & Britton
Ribes pinetorum Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 157. 1881.
A shrub about 2 m. high, the branches glabrous and without prickles, but bearing stout nodal spines, these solitary or 2 or 3 together, chestnut-brown, straight or slightly curved, 12 mm. long or less. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, thin, mostly 5-cleft, 2-3 cm. wide, glabrous and dull-green above, paler and sparingly puberulent beneath, at least on the stronger veins, sometimes slightly villous and glandular, the lobes obtuse, irregularly incised-serrate, the slender petioles as long as the blades or shorter, puberulent and with scattered glandular hairs ; peduncles puberulent, shorter than the petioles, erect, usually 1-flowered, rarely 2-flowered ; pedicels puberulent, somewhat shorter than the peduncles ; bracts thin, broad, ciliate ; ovary bristly ; hypanthium and sepals pilose, reddish-yellow ; sepals linear to linearspatulate, acute, reflexed, 6-8 mm. long, about twice as long as the cylindric-campanulate hypanthium, and one third longer than the petals and stamens; anthers ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm. long; style glabrous; berry purple, globose, 1-1.5 cm. in diameter, rather densely prickly.
Type locality : In woods of Pinus ponderosa^ in the higher elevations of the Pines Altos and Mogollon mountains, New Mexico.
Distribution : Mountains of New Mexico and Arizona,