Comprehensive Description
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Altamiranoa elongata Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 31. 1903
Perennial, at first with slender erect branches, but rather weak and becoming prostrate, striking root at every joint, finely pubferulent. I^eaves small, closely set at right angles to the branches, appearing imbricate in dried specimens, linear-ovate, acute, puberulent, 6 mm. long, turgid but somewhat flattened, with a cordate somewhat clasping base ; inflorescence paniculate, its ultimate branches secund, bearing a few sessile flowers ; sepals linear, 2 mm. long, puberulent; corolla white or pinkish, 5 mm. long, campanulate, its segments united at base into a short tube ; carpels distinct.
Type locality : Mountains above Pachuca, Mexico.
Distribution : Type locality and vicinity.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
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Altamiranoa Jurgensenii (Hemsl.) Rose
Cotyledon Jurgensenii Hemsl. Diag. PI. Nov. 1 : 9. 1878.
Suffruticose, erect, hispidulous, branching. lyeaves small (3-4 mm. long), ovate-oblong, obtuse, hispidulous ; inflorescence a 2or 3-flowered cyme ; sepals hispidulous, distinct, linear-lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx, its lobes lanceolate, apiculate, united at base.
Type locality : Mexico.
Distribution : Known only from type specimen.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
