Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Mascagnia brittonii Small, sp. nov
Leaf-blades lanceolate to oblong, 1-3 cm. long, acute or obtuse, or sometimes notched at the apex, thick, shining, especially above, glabrous, reticulate, short-petioled ; flowerstalks very slender, pliable ; sepals oblong-ovate, 2.5-3 mm. long, ciliolate, the glandsabout one half the length of the sepal-body ; petals lilac, 4-5 mm. long, with ovate, erose-undulate blades ; samaras reniform, 14-18 mm. wide, the lateral wings entire, the dorsal wing prominent.
Type collected on a coral rock bench at Guantanarao Bay, Oriente, Cuba, March, 1909, A r . L. Britton 1900 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution : About Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- 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
