Comprehensive Description
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Therorhodion glandulosum Standley, sp. nov
A low shrub forming dense clumps about 1 dm. tall, usually copiously branched; leafblades spatulate, often broadly so, or oval or ovate, on the upper part of the branches, 1-2 cm. long or less, obtuse, often rounded and abruptly pointed, or sometimes acute at the apex, crenulate, glandular-ciliate, veiny, somewhat shining, sessile or nearly so; calyx-lobes oblong, often narrowly so, to elliptic-oblong, 8-10 mm. long in anthesis, glandular-pubescent and glandular-ciliate; corolla rose-purple, 2 cm. long or slightly shorter, glabrous, the lobes somewhat erose, eciliolate; capsules oval, 7-9 mm. long, pubescent with short white hairs.
Type collected at the foot of Kjgluaik Mountains, near Oogluk Bay, Imuruk Basin, in the vicinity of Port Clarence, Alaska, August 4, 1901, F. A. Walpole 1725 (U. S. Nat. Herb.). Distribution: Imuruk Basin, Alaska.
- 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
