Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Banisteriopsis pauciflora (H.B.K.) C. B. Robinson
Banisteria pauciflora H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 5 : 160. 1822. Banisteria podadena Turcz. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 3D : 392. 1858.
Leaf-blades oblong, elliptic, or ovate, mostly 2-6 cm. long, mucronate at the apex, glabrous above, usually permanently, but inconspicuously pubescent beneath, dull on both sides, obtuse or rounded at the base, short-petioled ; sepals ovate, 3-3.5 mm. long, the glands fully one half the length of the sepal-body ; larger petals 7-9 mm. long ; samaras 2-2.5 cm. long, the ventral edge of the wing obliquely truncate and undulate-crenate from the middle to the apex, the body rugose-tuberculate.
Type locality : Near Havana, Cuba. Distribution: 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
