Comprehensive Description
(
Anglèis
)
fornì da North American Flora
Spatularia newcombei Small
Saxifraga Newcombei Small, Torreya 2 : ^S. 1902.
Plants 1.2-2.2 dm. tall, glandular-villous ; leaves crowded on the short caudex, the blades spatulate, 4-8 cm. long, sessile, coarsely serrate-dentate above the middle, more or less glandular-pubescent and ciliate ; scapes solitary, erect, simple below the inflorescence, corymbosely branched above ; bracts similar to the leaves, but smaller and relatively less toothed ; sepals ovate to oval, 3-5 mm. long, obtuse, glabrous or nearly so, usually purple; petals white, the 3 upper 7.5 mm. long, with lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate bimaculate blades, truncate or cordate at the base, the claws about 1 mm. long, the 2 lower petals with oblong or elliptic blades 8 mm. long; fruit not seen.
Type locality : Queen Charlotte Islands, British America. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- sitassion bibliogràfica
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
