Comprehensive Description
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Picramnia xalapensis Planch. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5: 577. 1846 A shrub (?) or tree (?), with pale-pubescent twigs and young leaves. Leaves 1-1.5 dm. long, or longer at maturity (?) ; leaflets 1.5-3.5 cm. long, numerous, mostly 21-25, narrowly ovate, ovate-lanceolate, or lanceolate, long-acuminate and obtuse or acutish at the apex, becoming glabrous or nearly so, thinnish, abruptly narrowed or acutish at the inequilateral base, short-petioluled ; panicles much-branched, the branches relatively short ; sepals 5, ovate, usually narrowly so, acute, 0.5-1 mm. long ; petals 5, linear-lanceolate, 1-2 mm. long; stamens 5 ; berries not seen.
Type locality : Near Jalapa.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
Picramnia xalapensis: Brief Summary
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Picramnia xalapensis is a plant species native to the State of Veracruz, Mexico. Type locale is in the mountains near the City of Xalapa.
Picramnia xalapensis is a shrub to small tree. Leaves are evergreen, thick, leathery, pinnately compound, lacking stipules. Leaves are numerous, ovate to lanceolate, gradually tapering at the tip.
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