Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xolisma fruticosa (Michx.) Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 153. 1895
Andromeda ferruginea fruHcos a Michx, Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 252. 1803.
Andromeda ferruginea Pursh, Fl. Am, Sept. 292. 1814. Not A. ferruginea Walt. 1788.
Lyonia ferruginea Nutt. Gen. 1: 266. 1818.
An erect shrub 2 m. tall or less, with pale-scurfy twigs; leaves much reduced in size at the ends of the branchlets, the blades oval or obovate to oblanceolate, mostly 1-5 cm. long, acute or abruptly acuminate at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, prominently reticulate, brightgreen or shining above, pale or glaucous beneath, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, often approximate on the elongate branchlets; calyx mostly 3-4 mm. wide, sometimes wider in age, the lobes deltoid-ovate or nearly reniform, often wider than long; corolla 3-4 mm. long; filaments pubescent; anthers fully 1 mm. long; capsules ovoid, 4-6 mm. long.
Type locai,ity: Florida.
Distribution: South Carolina to Florida.
- 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
