Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Malpighia incana Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8. Malpighia no. 3. 1768 Malpighia campechiensis Lam. Encyc. 4: 333. 1797.
Leaf-blades oblong or lanceolate, 3-6 cm. long, acute or acuminate at the apex, canescent on both sides, permanently so beneath, veiny above, acute at the base, short-petioled ; cymes short-peduncled ; sepals ovate, 2-2.5 mm. long, the glands over one half the length of the sepal-body ; corolla purple, 14-15 mm. wide, the larger petals 6-7 mm. long; drupes subglobose, about S mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Campeachy. Distribution: Mexico; Cuba; Jamaica (?).
- 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
