Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Heuchera hemisphaerica Rydb. sp. nov
Acaulescent ; the flowering branches scapiform, 2-3 dm. high, sparingly hirsute with brown hairs and bearing few brown scales; petioles 3-8 cm. long, brown-hirsute; leafblades cordate, 3-5 cm. wide, hirsute on both sides, rather deeply 3-5-lobed ; lobes ovate, acute, often again lobed and few-toothed ; teeth ovate and bristle -tipped ; inflorescence rather small and loose, glandular-puberulent ; hypanthium hemispherical, densely pilose with red hairs, but in age almost glabrous, together with the short rounded-ovate obtuse sepals about 3 mm. long; filaments subulate, about twice as long as the sepals; petals small, oblanceolate, about equaling the sepals.
Type collected in the Santa I,ucia Mountains, California, in 1886, by T. S. Brandegee (Gray Herbarium).
Distribution : Santa Lucia Mountains, California.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
