Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Phyllodoce aleutica (Spreng.) A. Heller, Muhlenbergia 1:1. 1900
Menziesia aleutica Spreng. Syst. 2: 202. 1825.
Phyllodoce Pallasiana D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 159. 1834.
Bryanthus aleuticus A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 368. 1868.
Plants 20 cm. tall or less, more or less matted; leaf-t>lades linear or nearly so, 5-1 1 mm. long, obtuse, serrulate; pedicels 6-14 together, glandular; calyx 9-10 mm. wide, the lobes linear to linear-lanceolate; corolla white or whitish, globose-urceolate, 6-8 mm. long, glabrous; stamens included; filaments much longer than the anthers, glabrous.
Type I/OCality: Aleutian Islands.
Distribution: Alaska and Unalaschka; also from Kamtchatka to Japan.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
