Comprehensive Description
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fornecido por North American Flora
Ledum decumbens (Ait.) Lodd.; Steud. Nom. Bot
ed. 2. 2: 20. 1841.
Ledum palustre decumhens Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 65. 1789. Ledum palustre angustifolium Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 44. 1834.
A diffuse, usually depressed shrub with tomentulose twigs ; leaf-blades narrowly oblong to linear, strongly revolute and often narrowly linear on account of the revolute margins, 1-1.5 cm. long or less, obtuse, glabrous, at least ultimately, above, tomentulose beneath, very shortpetioled; pedicels tomentulose; calyx-lobes broadly ovate to half orbicular, obtuse; petals oval or ovate-oval, 6-7 mm. long; stamens 10; filaments pubescent below the middle; capsules oval or obovoid, 3-4 mm. long, somewhat longer than thick.
Type locality: Hudson Bay.
Distribution: Greenland and Arctic America to Labrador, Alaska, and eastern Siberia.
- citação bibliográfica
- 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
