Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Menziesia ferruginea Smith, PL Ic. Ined. pL 56, 1791
Menziesia urceolaris Salisb. Farad. Lond. tmder pi. 44. 1806.
A straggling or erect shrub 2,5 m. tall or less, with sparingly fine-pubescent twigs; leafblades oblong or elliptic to obovate, 3-6 cm. long, acute or obtuse and gland-tipped, glandularciliate, deep-green above, pale-green beneath, strigose on both sides, but usually more copiously so above, short-petioled, the petioles with long hairs; pedicels glandular-hirsute; calyx circular or obscurely lobed, long-ciliate; corolla oblong-ovoid, becoming cylindraceous, 9-13 mm. long, the lobes half -orbicular; stamens 7-8 mm. long, capsules ovoid, 6-8 mm. long, glabrous; seeds 2-2.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Western North America. Distribution: Alaska to British Columbia and Oregon.
- 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
