Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Pieris cubensis (Griseb.) Small
Andromeda cubensis Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 51. 1866.
A shrub mostly 2 m. tall or less, with glabrous or almost glabrous twigs and spreading branches; leaf-blades linear to linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, 4—11 cm. long, acute or acutish, entire or obsciu'ely and remotely toothed above the middle, callous-margined, glabrous, reticulate; petioles mostly less than 0.5 mm. long, glabrous; panicles open; calyx finely pubescent, the lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm. long, acuminate; corolla white, pyramidal-urceolate, 9-10 mm. long; anthers fully 1.5 mm. long; capsules globose orslightly depressed, 6-7 mm. long, slightly angled.
Type locality: Western Cuba. Distribution: Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
- 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
