Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Grossularia senilis Coville, sp. nov
A shrub with loosely or densely bristly twigs ; nodal spines triple, acicular, 1-2 cm. long. Leaves ovate-orbicular in outline, 3-5-lobed, cordate at the base, incisely crenatedentate, 4 cm. wide or less, thin, somewhat paler beneath than above, sparingly villous and glandular-hairy above, or nearly smooth, beneath softly villous-pubescent and with scattered stalked glands, the villous and somewhat glandular-pubescent petioles as long as the blades or shorter; flowers solitary or 2 together on villous and glandular-hairy peduncles 1.5-3 cm. long ; bracts ovate, dentate, mostly shorter than the pedicels ; ovary densely villous, with a few gland-tipped or glandless bristles ; hypanthium purple, pubescent, cylindriccampanulate, 4-5 mm. long, nearly half as long as the purple, lanceolate, villous, and glandular-hairy sepals ; petals white or whitish, involute, erose, about as long as the filaments, half the length of the sepals or more ; anthers ovate-lanceolate, sagittate, mucronate, nearly 3 mm. long; berry unknown.
Type collected near Saratoga, Santa Clara County, California, A. A. Heller, and distributed as Ribes subvesiiium H. & A.
Distribution : Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties, California.
- 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
