Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Altamiranoa scopulina Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 32. 1903
Glabrous throughout. Stems more or less creeping and much branched, the lower parts
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covered with whitish scales (bases of old dead leaves); leaves linear, nearly terete, 4-6 mm. long, sessile and vnth a free projection down the stem, closely set but scarcely imbricate; flowers few, near the tops of the branches, sessile or shortpedicelled ; sepals leaf-like, shorter than the petals, somewhat unequal ; corollasegments pure white, oblong, acute,
5 mm. long, slightly united at base, nearly flat ; appendages minute ; stamens shorter than the corolla.
Type locality : Rocky hills near Tepeaca, south of Puebla, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
