Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Grossularia speciosa (Pursh) Coville & Britton
Ribes speciosum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 731. 1814.
Ribes siamineum Smith, in Rees, Cycl. 30 : no. 30. 1815.
Ribes fuchsioides Hoc. & Sesse ; Berland. M€m. Soc. Geneve 32 : 58. 1826.
Ribes triacanthum Menzies ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : 229, as synonym. 1832.
Robsonia speciosa Spach, Hist. V^g. 6 : 181. 1838.
Steins stout, often 3 or 4 tn. tall, the branches more or less densely bristly; nodal spines 3, rather stout, rigid, very pungent, 1-2 cm. long. Leaves orbicular, oblong, or obovate, coriaceous, glabrous, or sparingly glandular-hairy, long-persistent, 1-4 cm. long, slightly 3-5-lobed or few-toothed, the petioles mostly shorter than the blades ; peduncles drooping, 1-few-fiowered ; pedicels slender, glandular-bristly, longer than the ovate-orbicular bracts; hypanthium 2-3 mm. long, glandular-bristly; sepals 4, parallel, bright-red, 610 mm. long, about equaled by the petals ; filaments much exserted, 2-A times as long as the sepals ; anthers oval, about 1 mm. long; berry glandular-bristly.
Type locality : California, incorrectly given by Pursh as the Northwest Coast.
Distribution : Along the coast of southern California, San Diego County to Monterey County.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
