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Decumaria barbara I,; Sp. PL ed. 2. 1663. 1763
Forsythia scandens Walt. Fl. Car. 154. 1788.
Decumaria sarmentosa Bosc, Act. See. Hist. Nat. Par. 1: 76. 1792.
Decumaria radicans Moench, Meth. PI. 17. 1794.
Decumaria scandens Salisb. Prodr. 355. 1796.
Decumaria Forsythia Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1 : .282. 1803.
Stems mainly 1-10 cm. thick ; leaf-blades ovate to oval or suborbicular, or rarely obovate, 5-10 cm. long, entire orshallowly toothed, dark-green and ultimately glabrous above, paler and sparingly pubescent beneath; petioles mainly 1^ cm. long, pubescent; cymes erect during anthesis, pendent in fruit ; hypanthium prominently bordered at the top in age ; sepals deltoid, less than 1 mm. long during anthesis, and very slightly accrescent ; petals oblong to linear-oblong, 3-4 mm. long, much shorter than the filaments; capsules numerous in each cyme, the body 4-5 mm. long, prominently ribbed, the broadly conic beak shorter than the body,
Type locality : Unknown.
Distribution : Virginia to Florida and I/)uisiana.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, Per Axel Rydber, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Percy Wilson, Henry Hurd Rusby. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Comprehensive Description
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Decumaria barbara
Add to the illustrations: Britt. & Brown, 111. Fl. ed. 2. /. 2192; Lounsberry, S. Wild Fl. 223.
- bibliographic citation
- Per Axel Rydberg. 1918. ROSACEAE (conclusio). North American flora. vol 22(6). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
