Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Comarostaphylis polifolia (H. B. K.) Zucc; Klotzsch, lyinnaea
24: 77. 1851.
Arctoslapkylos polifolia H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3: 277. 1819.
A shrub with glabrous, or sparingly pubescent or puberulent twigs; leaf -blades linear, varying to slightly broadest above or below the middle, thick, 2-4.5 cm. long, acute or slightly spinescent at the apex, glabrous, at least ultimately so, and often shining above, pale and glabrous beneath, or with persistent scattered hairs, or puberulent, entire, revolute, shortpetioled; panicles rather loosely flowered, the rachis and pedicels glabrous or with scattered hairs; calyx 5-5.5 mm. wide, the lobes ovate, usually broadly so, acute or acutish, glabrous or merely ciliolate; corolla 8-9 mm. long; stamens about 3 mm. long, the filaments villous; ovary pubescent; drupes 5-6 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Near Villalpando, Mexico. Distribution: Middle and southern Mexico.
- 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
