Whiteflower Currant

Ribes indecorum Eastw. Proc. Calif. Acad. III
Bot. 2 : 243. 1902.
Ribes malvaceum indecorum Jancz. M€ni. Soc. Geneve 35 : 325. 1907.
Stems erect, unarmed, the young shoots pubescent and with glandular hairs ; petioles, under leafsurfaces, and inflorescence tomentose and glandular-pubescent. Leaves reniformorbicular to ovate-orbicular in outline, firm in texture, cordate or subcordate at the base, 3-5-lobed, 2-5 cm. wide, the upper surface rugose, stipitate-glandular, and with some simple hairs, the lobes obtuse, crenulate, the petioles rather stout, mostly shorter than the blades, with a few long glandular hairs toward the base ; racemes drooping or spreading, closely several -flowered, as long as the leaves or longer ; pedicels 1-2 mm. long ; bracts ovatelanceolate, acute, 3-5 mm. long ; ovary covered with both glandular and white divergent simple hairs ; hypanthium white or greenishwhite, cylindric-urceolate, glandular-pubescent, 3-4 mm. long, nearly twice as long as the obtuse sepals; style villous toward the base; petals suborbicular, short-clawed, about 1 mm. long ; berry viscid, at least 7 mm. in diameter.
Type locality: Cajon Heights, near San Diego, California. Distribution : Southern California.