Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ribes orizabae Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 8: 339. 1905
Unarmed ; young shoots, inflorescence, petioles, and leaf-margins somewhat glandularpubescent. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular in outline, thin, cordate at the base, rather deeply 3-lobed, or some of them 5-lobed, dark-green and glabrous above, dull-green and glandular -pubescent on the veins beneath, the lobes acute, sharply and irregularly serrate ; petioles as long as the blades or shorter ; racemes spreading or pendulous, 8-12-flowered ; pedicels 5-8 mm. long ; bracts lanceolate, acute, glandular, equaling the pedicels, or longer, the lower ones serrate ; hypanthium shortcylindric or slightly urceolate, about 4 mm. long, pubescent ; sepals pubescent, spreading, somewhat shorter than the hypanthium ; ovary glabrous.
Type locality: Orizaba, Mexico.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
