Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Oreomyrrhis daucifolia I. M. Johnston, Jour. Arnold
Arb. 19: 125. 1938.
Plants slender, 1-3 dm. high, the stems 1.5-14 cm. long; leaves oblong to oblong-ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 2.5-7.5 cm. long, 5-30 mm. broad, 3-pinnatisect, flaccid, sparsely pilose to glabrate, the ultimate divisions linear, 1-3 mm. long, 0.5 mm. or less broad, the rachis sparsely puberulent; petioles 2.5-7 cm. long; peduncles 7-22 cm. long; involucral bracts connate their lower fourth, the lobes obovate, 3-7 mm. long, ternate-pinnately dissected, pilose, reflexed; pedicels 1-8 mm. long; fruit 4-6 mm. long, 1-1.5 mm. broad.
Type locality: Charcol, Sierra Cuchumatanes. Department of Huehuetenango. Guatemala, 3180 in. alt., alpine meadow, Skutch 1263.
Distribution: Mountains, Guatemala (Standley 65.503, Steyermark 35,495, 36,127).
- bibliographic citation
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
