Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Kalistroemia caribaea Rydberg, sp. now A branched annual ; stems diffuse or ascending, 3-5 dm. long, striate, finely pubescent and sparingly hirsute ; stipules lanceolate, 3 mm. long; leaves 3-5 cm. long; petioles shorter than the leaflets ; leaflets usually 3 pairs, 1-2 cm. long, obliquely elliptic or oval, rounded and mucronate at the apex, more or less appressed-pubescent or glabrate above, the pairs nearly of the same size; peduncles in fruit 1.5-3 cm. long; sepals narrowly linearlanceolate, hispid, 5 mm. long; petals yellow, obovate, 6-7 mm. long ; fruit grayish-strigose ; beak 4 mm. long, conic at the base, about equaling the carpels ; nutlets tuberculate on the back and reticulate on the faces.
Type collected on Coconut hill, in cotton patches, Montserrat, West Indies, February 5, 1907, J. A.'Sha/erjSS (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution : Lesser Antilles, Costa Rica, and Honduras ; also in Colombia and Venezuela.
- 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
