Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Elaphrium epinnatum Rose, sp. now
A tree 5-8 meters high ; second-year branches dark-brown, glabrous ; first-year branches not seen ; leaves clustered at the ends of branches, simple, 2-4 cm. long, obtuse, broad at base, crenate, slightly pubescent on both surfaces; petioles 1-2 cm. long; inflorescence usually longer than the leaves, drooping, apparently few-flowered, in fruiting specimens bearing only 1-3 drupes; fruiting pedicels slender, 7-10 mm. long; drupes globose, broad at apex, 6 mm. long, glabrous.
Type collected at Cape San Lucas, Lower California, December 30, 1905, Nelson & Goldman 7379 (TT. S. Nat. Herb. no. 565456). This species is perhaps nearest E. cerasifoli Km , though the leaves are not glandular beneath, but are hairy on both sides and more strongly toothed as well as more obtuse.
- 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
