Comprehensive Description
(
anglais
)
fourni par North American Flora
Comarostaphylis arbutoides Lindl. Bot. Reg. 29: pL 30. 1843
Arctostaphylos arbutoides Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 278. 1881.
A shrub with finely reddish-tomentulose twigs ; leaf -blades oblong or elliptic, or sometimes broadest above the middle, 5-9 cm. long, thick, acute or mucronate, glabrous above, at least in age, thinly reddish-tomentulose beneath, gradually or abruptly narrowed at the base, shortpetioled; panicles loosely flowered, the rachis and pedicels red-tomentulose ; calyx 4r-5 mm. wide, the lobes triangularovate to triangular-lanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, finely tomentulose; corolla 6-7 mm. long; stamens about 3 mm. long, the filaments copiously villous; drupes not seen.
Type locality: Quezalte ango, Guatemala, grown from seeds in garden of Horticultural
Society, London.
Distribution: Guatemala and Panama.
- citation bibliographique
- 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
