Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Micranthes caroliniana (A. Gray) Small
Saxifraga caroliniana A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 3 : 39. 1846. Saxtfraga Carey ana caroliniana Engler, Monogr. Saxifr. 137. 1872. Saxtfraga Grayana Britton, Mem. Torrey Club 5 : 178. 1894. Micranthes Grayana Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 501. 1903.
Leaves mainly ascending or erect, 5-19 cm. long, the blades ovate, oval, suborbicular, or broadly oblong, dentate, more or less pubescent on both sides or glabrate above, ciliate, cuneate or subcordate at the base, often purplish beneath, commonly longer than the more pubescent petiole-like bases ; scapes 9-55 cm. tall, rather coarsely glandular-pubescent, green, paniculately branched ; cymules open, ovate, diffuse, the peduncles and pedicels slender and elongating; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm. long, reflexed, commonly not ciliolate ; petals white, with 2 yellow blotches below the middle, 3-3.5 mm. long, the ovate obtuse blades narrowed into short distinct claws ; filaments slender-clavate ; follicles about 3 mm. high, green, the bodies more or less spreading, with slender spreading tips.
Type locality: Mountains of North Carolina, Distribution : Mountains, Virginia and North Carolina.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
