Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Gaudichaudia arnottiana A. Juss. Ann. Sci
Nat. II. 13: 252. 1840.
Hiraea cycloptera H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 2S0. 1836. Not//", cycloptera Moc. & Sessg ; DC. Prodr. 1 : 586. 1824.
Leaf-blades oblong, ovate-oblong, or oval, 2-7 cm. long, abruptly shortpointed, densely whitish-tomentose or lanate-tomentose and pale beneath, thinly pubescent and bright-green above, mostly rounded at the base, short-petioled ; sepals ovate, 6-7 mm. long, the glands less than one half the length of the sepal-body ; petals yellow, the larger ones 16-18 mm. long, the blades suborbicular or oval, denticulate ; free portions of the filaments subulate, longer than the tube ; samaras obovate, 14-18 mm. long, each with a dorsal ridge.
Type locality : Near Talisco [Jalisco] .
Distribution : Mexico.
- 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
