Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Chimaphila acuta Rydberg, sp. nov
Suffruticose perennial; stem about 1 dm. high, greenish, terete; leaves in verticils of 3-5, oblanceolate, 2-6 cm. long, dark moss-green above, yellowish-green beneath, sharply serrate except towards the base, acute, the lateral veins distinct but not very strong beneath; peduncles about 1 dm. long; inflorescence corymbose or subumbellate ; bracts linear-subulate; pedicels in anthesis spreading, in fruit erect ; sepals triangular-ovate, longer than broad, acute ; petals oval, about 6 mm. long; dilated portion of the filaments obovate; anthers 2.5-3 mm. long, attached near the middle; capsule obovoid, about 7 mm. broad.
Type collected near top of "Rim rock," Tonto Basin, Arizona, August 2, 1887, Mearns 136
(herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
Distribution: Arizona and New Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, NathanieI Lord Britton, Per Axel Rydberg, LeRoy Abrams. 1914. ERICALES, CLETHRACEAE, LENNOACEAE, PTROLACEAE, MONOTROPACEAE, ERICACEAE, UVA-URSI. North American flora. vol 29(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
