Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Vauquelinia corymbosa Correa ; H. & B. PL Aequin. 1 : 140. 1808
A tree, up to 10 m. high, and with a trunk 20-27 cm. in diameter ; bark of the young drooping twigs red, that of the trunks shining, ash-colored ; petioles reddish, about as long as the blades, fiat above ; leaf-blades coriaceous, glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, with numerous almost parallel veins beneath, lanceolate, about 5 cm. long and 18 mm. wide, sharply dentate, acute at each end ; corymb shorter than the leaves ; hypanthium glabrous on both surfaces ; sepals ovate ; petals oval, white, a little longer than the sepals ; fruit ovoid, pubescent, about 5 mm. long.
Type locality: Actopan, Mexico.
Distribution : Hidalgo.
- 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
