Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Azalea oblongifolia Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 883. 1903
A shrub 2 m. tall or less, with erect or spreading branches and finely pubescent and somewhat hirsute twigs; leaf-blades oblong-oblanceolate or obovate, or individually oblong, 4—10 cm. long, abruptly gland-tipped, ciliate, dull-green, slightly paler beneath than above, strigillose on both sides, short-petioled; flower-clusters expanding after the leaves; pedicels finely pubescent and somewhat hirsute; calyx-lobes lanceolate, sparingly ciliate, acute or acutish; corolla white or pink, 3.5-4 cm. long, the tube finely glandular-pubescent, dilated near the limb, the lobes rather narrow, acute; anthers about 3 mm, long; capsules not seen.
Type locality: Tom Green County, Texas. Distribution: Arkansas and Texas.
- 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
