Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Alvaradoa haitiensis Urban, Symb. Ant. 5 : 379. 1908 A shrub or small tree. Leaves mostly 0.5-1 dm. long, stiff, the rachis rather slender, the leaflets 9-25, the blades thick, suborbicular, oval, or obovate near the base of the rachis, oblong or nearly so on the upper part of the rachis, the larger ones mostly 1-2 cm. long, all obtuse, deep-green above, yellowish and more or less loose-pubescent beneath ; calyxlobes ovate to triangular-ovate, 1.5-2 mm. long, obtuse or abruptly constricted into a short acumination ; samaras oblong-obovate, somewhat over 1 cm. long, rounded at the apex.
Type locality : Near La Brande, Haiti.
Distribution : Haiti.
- 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