Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xolisma obtusa (Griseb.) Small
Lyonia obtusa Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 51. 1866.
Andromeda obtusa C. Wright; Sauv. Anal. Acad. Ci. Habana 6: 250. 1870.
A rigidly branched shrub mostly less than 2 m. tall, with red-scurfy twigs ; leaves numerous, bright-green, the blades oblong, oval, or suborbicular, varying to broadest above or below the middle, 1.5-4 cm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, smooth and shining above, or slightly reticulate in age, dull and pale beneath, entire, more or less revolute, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, few-flowered, the pedicels stout; calyx 7-9 mm. wide, the lobes 5, deltoid to triangular-lanceolate, acute or acuminate; corolla not seen; capsules oval to ovoid, 6-8 mm.
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Type locality: Eastern Cuba. Distribution: Eastern Cuba.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
