Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Comarostaphylis costaricensis Small, sp. nov
A shrub with glabrous twigs; leaf-blades narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, or sometimes oblong-spatulate, 3-7 cm. long, acute or abruptly short-acuminate, thickish, glabrous, entire, slightly revolute, smooth and somewhat shining above, pale-green or glaucous beneath, shortpetioled; panicles rather closely flowered, the rachis and pedicels glabrous or with scattered hairs; calyx 4.5-5 mm. wide, the lobes ovate to triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, erose; corolla 6-7 mm. long; stamens 2.5-3 mm. long, the filaments sparingly villous near the dilated base; drupes globose-ovoid, 4-5 mm. in diameter.
Type collected on Irazu, Costa Rica, June 25, 1874, O. Kuntze 2361 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.). Distribution: Costa Rica.
- 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
