Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Lyonothamnus floribundus A. Gray, Proc. Am
Acad. 20: 292. 1885.
Lyonothamnus asplenifolius Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 1 : 187. 1886. Lyonothamnus floribundus asple7iifolius Brand. Zee 1 : 136. 1890.
A tree, 14 m. high or less, the trunk sometimes 2.5 dm. in diameter, usually smaller, sometimes a mere shrub ; bark reddish-brown, its strips remaining long attached to the
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trunk ; young twigs pubescent, becoming orange-red and glabrous ; leaves 2 dm. long or less, thick, densely white -torn en tose beneath when young, becoming glabrous, or somewhat pubescent beneath when old, dark-green above, paler on the under side, varying greatly from quite simple and entire to deeply many-lobed and compound, the lobes close together, oblique, acute ; cymes 1-2.5 dm. broad, densely many-flowered, pubescent ; pedicels 2-3 mm. long ; hypanthium tomentose, 2-3 mm. in diameter ; petals 2-3 mm. broad ; follicles rough-glandular, 2.5-3 mm. long.
Type locality : Island of Santa Catalina, California.
Distribution : Islands of Santa Catalina, Santa Cruz and San Clemente, California.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
