Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Grossularia cruenta (Greene) Coville & Britton
Ribes cruentum Greene, Pittonia 4 : 35. 1899.
Ribes amictum cruentum Jancz. M^m. Soc. Gendve 35 : 366. 1907.
Stems glabrous throughout, or the younger twigs, young petioles, and hypanthium puberulent; nodal spines acicular, 1-1.5 cm.^ long. Leaves reniform to orbicular, small, 1-2.5 cm. wide, mostly 3-lobed, crenate-dentate, the slender petioles mostly shorter than the blades ; flowers solitary or two together, on peduncles usually shorter than the leaves ; bracts clasping, veiny, erose, sometimes ciliate, longer than the pedicels ; ovary bristly and sometimes with a few stalked glands ; hypanthium cylindric-campanulate, crimson, 5-7 mm, long and about 3 mm. thick; sepals lanceolate, crimson; petals white or pink, involute, erose or laciniate, about half as long as the sepals, a little shorter than the filaments ; anthers lanceolate to ovate, about 2.5 mm. long ; berry densely spiny.
Type locality: California, Coast Range from^Sonoma County northward. Distribution : Middle California to southern Oregon. Perhaps a glabrate race of the following species.
- 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
