Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Polygala minutifolia Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 13: 307. Ap 1911.
Polygala nudala Brand. Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 4: 183. J! 1911.
Stems very numerous, fruticulose, erect, about 1.5 dm. high, sparsely strigillose or subglabrous; leaves squamiform, minute, linear-lanceolate, 1-4.5 mm. long, 0.5 mm. wide, acuminate, sparsely incurved-puberulous; racemes straight, 4-6-flowered, 2.S cm. long or less; flowers white; sepals ovate to elliptic, acute, 2.2-2.7 mm. long, the upper persistent; wings ovalobovate, 4 mm. long, 2.2 mm. wide, truncate-rounded at apex, glabrous; keel 3.5 mm. long, the blunt beak 0.7 mm. long; capsule oblong, nearly glabrous, 2.S mm. long; seed sericeous, 2.3 mm. long; aril 0.S mm. long, with 2 oblong lateral lobes.
Type locality: Near Monterey, Nuevo Leon. Distribution: Coahuila and Nuevo Leon.
- 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
