Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Philadelphus stramineus Rydb. sp. nov
A straggling shrub about 2 m. high, with ascending branches ; bark of the young twigs brown and more or less short-villous, of the previous season's growth chestnut and exfoliating, and of the old stems straw-colored ; buds hidden in the bases of the petioles ; petioles very short, 1 mm. long or less ; leaf-blades oblong, lance-oblong or oval, acutish at both ends or obtuse at the apex, entire-margined, leathery, grayish-green and strigose on both sides ; flowering branches 1.5-3 cm. long, with 2 or 3 pairs of leaves and 1-3 flowers ; hypanthium and the short pedicels strigose ; sepals ovate, acuminate, about 6 mm. long, densely strigose without, tomenttdose within ; petals oval, about 1 cm. long, rounded at the apex ; stamens 30-40 ; styles united ; stigmas distinct, or united below ; capsule broadly obovoid, about 8 mm. long.
Type collected in the White Mountains, Mono County, California, in 1888, by W. H. Shockley. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
