Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ribes dugesii Greenman, Proc. Am. Acad. 39 : 78. 1903
A much-branched shrub, the young branches with glabrous or slightly pubescent reddish-brown bark. Leaves ovate-orbicular in outline, shallowly and bluntly 3-5-lobed, crenate-dentate, obtuse to cordate at base, sparingly glandular on both sides, the petioles 1-3 cm. long, pubescent, and with short-stipitate glands, 3-6 cm. long, bearing several flowers ; bracts herbaceous, obovate, toothed, stipitate-glandular, 3-4 mm. long ; ovary smooth; hypanthium subcampanulate, about 2 mm. long, white or pinkish ; sepals nearly white, oblong, about 3 mm. long; petals subreniform, entire, white, about 2 mm. long and wide ; stamens as long as the petals, the filaments about equaling the anthers.
Type locality : Mountains of Santa Rosa, near Guanajuato, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
