Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Ribes ciliatum H. & B. ;'r. & S. Syst. Veg. 5: 500. 1819
Ribes jorullense H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6: 61. 1823.
An unarmed shrub, 3-5 m. high, the stems sometimes 13 cm. in diameter, the young shoots glandular-pubescent. Leaves nearly orbicular in outline, 9 cm. wide or less, deeply cordate at the base with a usually closed sinus, 3-5-lobed, the upper surface glabrate or with some scattered glandular hairs, the under surface rather densely glandularpubescent, the lobes acute or acutish, finely irregularly dentate, the petioles as long as the blades or shorter, densely glandular-pubescent; racemes pendulous, about as long as the leaves, about 10-flowered, finely pubescent and glandular; pedicels 4-7 mm. long; bracts oblonglanceolate, mostly longer than the pedicels, glandular; hypanthium pubescent, short-cylindric, 4-5 mm. long; sepals oblong, obtusish, greenishwhite, 3-4 mm. long, pubescent; ovary glabrous ; berry globose, glabrous, about 8 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Not cited.
Distribution : High mountains of central and southern Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY