Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Larrea canescens (E. M. Fisher) Britton
Hoffmanseg^ia canescein E. M. Fisher. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 1: 149. 1892. Caesalpinia canescens E. M. Fisher. Bot. Gaz. 18: 123. 1893.
Herbaceous, or a little woody below, short-villous, 3-4 dm. high. Stipules linear, 4-5 mm. long, pinnatilid, caducous; pinnae 5-9; leaflets 4-7 pairs, oblong, 5-9 mm. long, canescent, black-glandular-dotted beneath; racemes 2-3 dm. long, lO-20-flowered; bracts linear, caducous; pedicels 2-4 mm. long, usually reflexed; calyx-lobes linear-lanceolate, pubescent, with many sessile black glands; petals S mm. long, a little longer than the calyx; legume oblongfalcate, 3-4 cm. long, about 7 ram. wide, more or less incurved, stellate-pubescent and blackglandular, and with setose processes.
Type LOc.^Lirv: Saltillo, Coahuila. Distribution: Coahuila; San Luis Potosi.
- bibliographic citation
- Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY