Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xolisma stahlii (Urban) Small
Lyonia Stahlii Urban, Symb. Ant. 5: 453. 1908.
A shrub (?) or small tree (?), with scurfy twigs; leaves numerous, bright-green, the blades oval or elliptic, varying to obovate, 3-6 cm. long, obtuse or rotmded at the apex, crenulate, obsciurely reticulate in age, somewhat shining above, dull beneath, short-petioled; panicles raceme-like or cluster-like, few-flowered, the pedicels rather slender; calyx 3.5-4 mm. wide, the lobes 5, deltoid to ovatedeltoid, acute or abruptly pointed; corolla conic-urceolate, about 5 mm. long, the lobes broad, much shorter than the tube; filaments 2-3 mm. long, very slender above the abruptly dilated bases, nearly glabrous; anthers about 1 mm. long; capsules narrowly ovoid, 5-6 mm. long.
Type locality: Near Bayamon, Porto Rico. Distribution: Porto Rico.
- bibliographic citation
- 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
