Comprehensive Description
(
Inglês
)
fornecido por North American Flora
Xolisma costata (Urban) Small
Lyonia costata Urban, Symb. Ant. 7: 316. 1912.
A tree with brownish-scurfy twigs; leaves numerous, bright-green, the blades thickish, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, or rarely obovate, 3-6.5 cm. long, obtuse or rarely acute, crenulate, finely reticulate, often slightly shining above, dull beneath, short-petioled; panicles clusterlike, rather many-flowered, the pedicels slender; calyx 4.5-5 mm. long, the lobes 5, ovate, sometimes broadly so, abruptly pointed; corolla white, cylindric-urceolate, 8-9 mm. long, the lobes broad, very much shorter than the tube; filaments 4.5-5.5 mm. long, very slender above the short dilated bases; anthers fully 1 mm. long; capsules not seen.
Type locality: Between Constanza and Valle, Santo Domingo. Distribution: Santo Domingo.
- citação bibliográfica
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
