Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xolisma squamulosa (Mart. & Gal.) Small
Lyonia squamulosa Mart. & Gal. Bull. Acad. Brux. 9^: 542. 1842.
A widely branching shrub mostly less than 2 m. tall, with red-scurfy twigs; leaf -blades oval or elliptic, varying to broadest above or below the middle, or sometimes slightly rhombic. 1-3 cm. long, obtuse or acutish, smooth and shining above, dull beneath, or more or less
reticulate on both sides, somewhat sciu-fy beneath, short-petioled; panicles cluster-like, often
approximate; calyx about 5 mm. wide, the lobes deltoid or ovate-deltoid, acute; corolla 3-4
mm. long; j&laments puberulent; anthers fully 1 mm. long; capsules subglobose or depressed,
3.5-4 mm. long.
Type locality: Cofre de Perote, Vera Cruz. Distribution: 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
