Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Fendlera wrightii (A. Gray) Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 24: 537. 1897
Fendlera rupicola Wrightii A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 77. 185'' Edwinia Wrightii Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 47 7. 1897.
A shrub resembling Fendlera rupicola, but smaller in all its parts ; leaves commonly more crowded, the blades narrowly oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, and mostly apparently linear or nearly so on account of the revolute margins, mainly 0.5-1.5 cm. long, or sometimes 2 cm. long, strigillose and can escent-strigil lose or lanate-strigillose beneath, at least when young; flowers solitary or sparingly clustered, the pedicels copiously pubescent at maturity; sepals lanceolate to triangular, 3-4.5 mm. long, or longer at maturity, but less accrescent than in Fendlera rupicola; petals 12-16 mm. long, the blades 7-10 mm. wide, ciliolate, finely erose; capsule-body 9-12 mm. long, the rather deciduous sepals seldom reaching to its middle.
Type locality : Along the San Pedro River, Texas. Distribution: Western Texas, New Mexico and northern Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
