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Monnina deppei G. Don, Gen. Hist. 1: 367. 1831 Monnina evonymoides Schlecht. Linnaea 14: 380. 1840. Monnina sylvicola Chod. Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 30': 303. 1891. Monnina aestnans silvatica Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 48. 1891.
Branching, apparently shrubby ; branches stout, incurved-puberulous; leaves lance-ovate to elliptic or oval, short-pointed or acuminate, 7.3-12 cm. long, 2.5-6 cm. wide, cuneate at base, thin, rather sparsely strigillose both sides; petioles 3-6 mm. long; peduncles 0.7-4 cm. long, several or numerous, simple or branched; racemes dense, acutish, somewhat comose, 8-11 mm. thick, the axis 18 cm. long or less; bracts lance-subulate, narrowed to an obtusish apex, ciliate, deciduous, 4.5-5 mm. long; pedicels 1 mm. long; flowers probably purplish; sepals suborbicular-ovate to oval-ovate, free, obtuse, short-ciliate, 1.8-2.7 mm. long; wings suborbicular or suborbicular-obovate, 4-4.7 mm. long, 4— 4.3 mm. wide, cucullate and broadly rounded, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, glabrous, about 5-nerved; keel ciliolate, 4—5 mm. long; staminal sheath' pilose at apex, the filaments glabrous; fruit ovoid, thickened, emarginate or obtuse, rugose-reticulate, at length crested on the upper margin and with a fluted wing about 1 mm. wide on the lower, 6-7 mm. long.
Type locality: Jalapa, Veracruz.
Distribution: Michoacan (or Guerrero) and Veracruz to Costa Rica.
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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
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