Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Polygala appressipilis Blake, Contr. Gray
Herb. 47: 41. 1916.
Polygala sinaloensis Riley, Kew Bull. 1923 : 108. 1923.
Stems several, erect, about 3.5 dm. high, griseous-puberulous with appressed hairs; leaves lanceolate, ovate or oval, 1.5-5 cm. long, 8-17 mm. wide, acute or obtuse, cuspidulate, not reticulate, above dull-green, beneath paler, puberulous with appressed hairs; flowers apparently ochroleucous; sepals oblong-ovate, acutish, 3.8-5 mm. long; wings oval or broadly elliptic, 6.5-9 mm. long, 4.5-5.8 mm. wide, rounded at apex, cuneate at base, ciliolate, incurved-puberulous at base and apex and along costa; keel 6.8-8 mm. long; capsule oval, ciliolate, sparsely incurvedpuberulous laterally, 8 mm. long; mature seed unknown.
Type locality: Lava fields above Cuernavaca, Morelos. Distribution: Sinaloa to Tepic, Puebla, and Oaxaca.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
