Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Lindleyella schiedeana Rydberg, sp. nov
Lindleya mespiloides Schlecht. I,innaea 13 : 404. 1839. Not L. mespiloides H.B.K. 1823.
A tree, 3 m. high or more ; bark of twigs and branches dark brownish-gray, warty with numerous lenticels ; leaves short-petioled ; blades obovate, 3-4 cm. long, reticulate, shining above, dull beneath, acute, obtuse or mucronate at the apex, abruptly contracted at the base, finely crenate ; stipules subulate, glandular-toothed, 3 mm. long; pedicels very short; hypanthium broader and shorter than in the preceding, 3 mm. deep and 5 mm. wide ; sepals ovate, acute, 5 mm. long ; stamens about 20 ; filaments subulate ; petals about 15 mm. long, obovate.
Type collected between Zimapan and San^Jos^ del Oro, Mexico, Schiede.
Distribution : Southern Mexico.
- 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
