Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Tetragastris panamensis (Engler) Kuntze, Rev Gen. 107. 1891.
Hedwigia panamensis Engler, Bot. Jahrb. 1 : 42. 1880.
A tree S-13 meters high with a trunk 3 dm. in diameter and a widely spreading top ; branches grayish; leaflets 9-11, 6-10 cm. long, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, inflorescence short, with appressed reddish hairs; pedicels 1-2 mm. long; corolla 3 mm. long, puberulent without ; lobes of the corolla much shorter than the tube, inflexed at the tip ; ovary glabrous; drupes 2 cm. broad, much broader than high.
Type locality' : Panama.
Distribution : Panama.
- bibliographic citation
- 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
