Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Grossularia reclinata (I,.) Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 1. 1768
Ribes reclinatum Iv. Sp. PI. 201. 1753.
Ribes Grossularia I,. Sp. PI. 201. 1753.
Ribes Uva-crispa'U. Sp. PI. 201. 1753.
Grossularia Uva-crispa Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. no. 3. 1768.
Grossularia vulgaris Spach, Hist. V^g. 6 : 174. 1838.
A shrub about 1 m. high, the stems ascending or reclining, the older wood often bristly; nodal spines stout, mostly 3 together, sometimes solitary, 1.5 cm. long or less. Leaves rather firm in texture, suborbicular in outline, 3-5-lobed, crenate-dentate, broadly cuneate to cordate at the base, 2-6 cm. broad, pubescent, the petioles sometimes bearing gland-tipped hairs ; peduncles slender, nodding, 1or 2-flowered, mostly shorter than the petioles ; bracts thin, 1-2 mm. long, shorter than the glandular-pubescent pedicels ; ovary pubescent and often glandular-villous ; hypanthium pubescent, greenish, short-campanulate, 3-4 mm. long, about as long as the usually pubescent greenish sepals ; petals obovate, whitish, about as long as the filaments ; stamens not longer than the sepals ; style pubescent below ; berry globose to oval, yellowish to red, more or less pubescent and glandularbristly.
Type locality : Germany and Switzerland.
Distribution : Escaped from cultivation in New York and New Jersey,
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- 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
