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Ribes neglectum Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat
Herb. 8: 298. 1905.
An unarmed shrub, 1.5 m. high or less, the young branches finely pubescent and with some glandular hairs. Leaves rather broader than long, 2-4 cm. wide, siibcordate or nearly truncate at the base, rather firm in texture, 3-5-lobed, dark-green and with scattered stiff glandular hairs above, paler and with both simple and glandular pubescence on the veins beneath, the lobes short, rounded, crenate-dentate, the strongly glandular-pubescent petioles shorter than the blades ; racemes spreading, or in fruit pendulous, 6-12-flowered, about as long as the leaves, glandular-pubescent ; pedicels 2-6 mm. long ; bracts ovate, acute, rather longer than the pedicels ; hypanthium greenish, pubescent, 2-3 mm. long, a little shorter than the ovate sepals ; petals broad, crenate ; ovary with scattered gland-tipped hairs, otherwise smooth; berry smooth, black, 8-10 mm. in diameter.
Type locality : Alvarez, San Luis Potosi. Distribution : Type locality and vicinity.
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Frederick Vernon Coville, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Henry Allan Gleason, John Kunkel Small, Charles Louis Pollard, Per Axel Rydberg. 1908. GROSSULARIACEAE, PLATANACEAE, CROSSOSOMATACEAE, CONNARACEAE, CALYCANTHACEAE, and ROSACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 22(3). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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