Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Elaphrium attenuatum Rose
Ten bin I Inn attenuate. Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12 : 278. 1909.
A tree ; branches even when quite young perfectly glabrous ; leaves large, pinnate ; leaflets 5-7, lanceolate, long-attenuate, rounded at base, 8-12 cm. long, rather thin (at least on flowering specimens), perfectly glabrous on both surfaces exeept for some tufts of hairs in the lower axils of the veins on the under surface ; racemes slender, clustered at the ends of the second-year branches, 10-15 cm. long, glabrous; immature drupes glabrous.
Type locality : Colomas, Sinaloa.
Distribution : Foothills of Sinaloa.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
