Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Connarus reticulatus Griseb. Cat. PL Cuba 84. 1866
Young twigs puberulent, the older ones glabrous ; petioles 3^ cm. long, thickened at the base ; leaflets 3, ovate-oblong to elliptic, leathery, smooth and shining above, strpngly and densely reticulateveined beneath, 4-8 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base, the stout petiolules 2-3 mm. long; panicles mostly terminal, peduncled, reddish-tomentose ; flowers pedicelled ; calyx tomentose, its segments lanceolate, obtusish ; petals oblong-lanceolate, about 6 mm. long, twice as long as the calyx ; follicles obliquely obovoid, 2.5 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, about 1 cm. thick, becoming glabrous, the apex incurved, acute, the stipe 3-4 mm. long.
Type locality : Eastern Cuba.
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- 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
