Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Neodeutzia mexicana (Hemsl.) Small
Deutzia mexicana Hemsl. Diag. PI. Nov. 9. 1878.
A shrub 2-5 m. tall, the bark pale, the twigs scurfy ; leaf-blades thickish, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5-6 cm. long, rather closely but finely serrate or serrate-dentate, acute, tomentulose above, densely pale or whitish pubescent beneath, mainly rounded at the base ; buds about 4 mm. long just before anthesis ; sepals broadly ovate, about 2 mm. long during anthesis and reflexed; petals obovate, 5-6 mm. long; filaments 3-3.5 mm. long; capsules 4.5-5.5 mm. wide, crowned with the reflexed sepals.
Type locality : Orizaba, Mexico.
Distribution : Mexico.
- 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
