Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Elaphrium bicolor Schlecht. L,innaea 17 : 625. 1843
Bursera bicolor Engler, in DC. Monog. Phan. 4 : 53. 1883. Terebinthus bicolor Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10 : 118. 1906.
A small tree with rounded top ; young branches reddish, glabrous ; leaves pinnate ; rachis narrowly winged; leaflets 9-19, linear to narrowly lanceolate, acminate, above dark-green, glabrous or nearly so, beneath with a white matted tomentum, the margin subeutire, revolute ; inflorescence a narrow panicle 10-20 cm. long, more or less glandular ; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, 4 mm. long, glandular and pubescent ; petals purplish, 5-6 mm. long, long-pilose; ovary oblong, acuminate, glandular; drupes 10-15 mm. long.
Type locality : Real de Huauta [Cuautla], Morelos. Distribution : Vera Cruz (?) to Morelos.
- 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
