Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Comarostaphylis longifolia (Benth.) IClotzsch, Linnaea 24:
75. 1851.
Arctostaphylos longifolia Benth. PI. Hartw. 44. 1840. Comarostaphylis attenuata Klotzsch, Linnaea 24: 75. 1851. Arctostaphylos attenuata Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 278. 1881.
A shrub with glandular-hirsute twigs; leaf-blades oblong, sometimes narrowly oblong or linearoblong, or slightly oblong-lanceolate, 4-9.5 cm. long, acute or slightly acuminate, finely pubescent above, at least when young, tomentulose beneath, finely serrate-dentate with mucronate teeth, short-petioled; panicles rather closely flowered, the rachis and pedicels finely glandular-hirsute; calyx 4.5-5.5 mm. wide, the lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glandular-pubescent; corolla 6-7 mm. long; stamens about 3 mm. long, the filaments villous ; drupes not seen.
Type locality: Angangueo, Michoacan. Distribution: Central and southern Mexico.
- 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
