Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Kalmiella aggregata Small, sp. nov
A shrub 1 2 dm. tall or less, with erect or nearly erect branches and both finely pubescent and somewhat short-hirsute foliage; leaf-blades very thick, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, or narrower on account of the strongly revolute margins, 8-11 mm. long, obtuse or acutish. 55
deep-gireen and finely pubescent above, paler and finely pubescent beneath, barely ciliate, sessile; pedicels shorter than the leaves, minutely pubescent and glandular-pilose; sepals lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute or slightly acuminate, copiously soft-ciliate with glandtipped hairs: corolla light-pink, 17-20 mm. broad; filaments glabrous; capsules not seen.
Type collected in pinelands, Los Indies, Isle of Pines, Cuba, May 17, 1910, Jennings 324 (herb.
N.Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Isle of Pines, Cuba.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
