Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Xolisma rubiginosa (Pers.) Small
Andromeda rubiginosa Pers. Syn. Pi. 1: 481. 1805.
Andromeda pubescens Poir. in Lam. Encyc. Suppl. 1: 355. 1810.
Lyonia rubiginosa G. Don, Gen. Hist. 3: 841. 1834.
A widely branching shrub or small tree, with pale-scurfy twigs; leaves not crowded, bright-green, the blades thickish, oval, elliptic, or obovate, mostly 2-4 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, somewhat reticulate but shining above, dull, glaucous, and not reticulate beneath, undulate or obscurely crenate, nearly glabrous in age, short-petioled; panicles clusterlike, few-flowered, the pedicels short, densely scurfy; calyx about 4 mm. wide, the lobes 5-7, suborbicular, varying to orbicular-ovate or orbicular-reniform, abruptly pointed; corolla conic, 6-7.5 mm. long, the lobes acute, much shorter than the tube; filaments very slender, nearly glabrous, 3-3.5 mm. long; anthers about 1.5 mm. long; capsules ovoid, about 5 mm. long.
Type i^ocawty: St. Thomas. Distribution: Hispaniola and St, Thomas.
- 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
