Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Torrubia floridana Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 615. 1904
Pisonia floridana Britton; Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 411. 1903.
A low shrub with irregular branches; petioles slender 3-8 mm. long; leaf-blades ovalobovate or cuneate-obovate, 1-3 cm. long, 0.6-1.3 cm. wide, cuneate at the base, rounded at the apex, densely puberulent; pistillate cymes few-flowered, terminal, 1-3 cm. broad, on peduncles 1-1.7 cm. long, the branches densely puberulent, the perianth tubular, 2 mm, long, glabrate, 5-dentate, the teeth short, obtuse; anthocarp elliptic-oblong, 6-7 mm. long.
Type locality: Rock Key, Florida. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1918. (CHENOPODIALES); ALLIONIACEAE. North American flora. vol 21(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
