Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xerococcus congestus Oerst. Vidensk. Meddel. 1852:
52. 1852.
Petioles 3.5-5 cm. long; leaf-blades broadly ovate, about 15 cm. long and 10-12.5 cm. wide, narrowed at the base, short-acuminate at the apex, scaberulous above, ferrugino-villous beneath when young, glabrate in age, the lateral veins divergent, parallel; flowers very numerous, the glomerules 2.5 cm. broad; hypanthium about 2 mm. long, the calyx-lobes 8 mm. long; corolla 8-10 mm. long, the lobes 2-3 mm. long; fruit 4 mm. long.
Type locality: Turrialba, Costa Rica, at an altitude of 900 meters. Distribution: Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- Paul Carpenter Standley. 1921. RUBIALES; RUBIACEAE (pars). North American flora. vol 32(2). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
