Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Flueckigera macrantha (Standley) P. Wilson
Ledenbergia macrantha Standley, Jour. Wash. Acad. 13: 350. 1923.
A tree, 6 m. high or sometimes more, with somewhat pendent branches, the twigs sparsely pubescent when young; leaf-blades elliptic to broadly ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 2.5-4.5 cm. broad, acute to acuminate or obtuse at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base, thin, glabrous above, villous beneath along the midvein below the middle; petioles slender, 2-4.5 cm. long, sparsely villous; racemes 10-15 cm. or more long; sepals oblong-oblanceolate, in fruit 8-13 mm. Ion:,-, 2.5-4.5 mm. broad, glabrate, conspicuously veined; fruit ellipsoid, 3 mm. long.
Type locality: Along roadside at Puerta de la Laguna, near San Salvador. Distribution: Salvador.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY