Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Secondatia macnabii (Urban) Woodson, Ann. Mo
Bot. Card. 19: 385. 1932.
Orthechites Macnabii Urban, Symb, Ant. 6: 37. 1909.
Shrub, apparently erect, essentially glabrous throughout; leaves firmly membranaceous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-7 cm. long, 1.3-2.3 cm. broad, acuminate at the apex, acute to obtuse at the base, the petioles 3-4 mm. long; inflorescence subcorymbose, terminal, bearing 3-6 small white flowers; pedicels 3-4 mm. long; calyx-lobes ovate, 2 mm. long, minutely ciliolate; corolla salverform, glabrous externally, the tube about 15 mm. long, about 1.5 mm. in diameter at the base, the lobes obliquely elliptic, 7-8 mm. long, spreading; follicles unknown.
Type IvOCaIvITy: Jamaica.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- Robert Everard Woodson, Jr. 1938. (ASCLEPIADALES); APOCYNACEAE. North American flora. vol 29(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY