Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Neocastela depressa (Turpin) Small
Castela depressa Turpin, Ann. Mus. Paris 7: 79. 1806.
A shrub with numerous branches and thorn-like branchlets mostly less than 1 cm. long. Leaves spreading or reflexed, the blades ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 1-1.5 cm. long, acute or abruptly sharp-tipped, revolute, bright-green and shining above, silvery-white beneath, smooth, sessile ; calyx about 1 mm. long, the lobes acute, shorter than the tube; petals purple, oval or obovate 2-2.5 mm. long; anthers mostly shorter than the filaments; drupes obovoid, 1 cm. long or more, rounded at the apex.
Type locality : Santo Domingo. Distribution: Santo Domingo.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
