Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tapura antillana Gleason, sp. nov
Tree about 10 m. high, with glabrous stems and foliage; petioles 8-12 mm. long; leafblades thick and firm, oblong-ovate to elliptic or oblong, 8-15 cm. long by half as wide, subacuminate into an acute or obtuse apex, entire, rounded at base, veins and veinlets conspicuously reticulate beneath; umbels relatively loose, about 20-flowered; pedicels 2-4 mm. long; calyx obovoid-oblong, 4 mm. high, its lobes bioadly ovate-rhomboid, densely gray-tomentose.
Type collected in Dominica, W. C. Fishlock 13 (herb. New York Botanical Garden).
Distribution: Guadeloupe, Dominica, and Martinique.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
