Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Oreobroma glandulosum Rydberg, sp. nov
Subacaulescent perennial, with a deep, thick, fleshy taproot 5-10 mm. thick; basal leaves numerous, 3-4 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide, linear; scapes 2-3 cm. long, 13-flowered; bracts lanceolate, 3-5 mm. long, glandular-dentate; pedicels 2-5 mm. long; sepals obovate, 3 mm. long, dentate with stipitate black glands; petals 5-7, white, elliptic, 6-7 mm. long; stamens 5-7; capsule about 4 mm. long, ovoid; seeds black, obovate, scarcely 1 mm. long.
Folia linearia; inflorescentia 1-3 -flora; bracteae et sepala glanduloso-dentata glandulis stipitatis; petala elliptica albida eglandulosa; semina obovata nigra.
Tvpe collected on Mount Dana, California, at an altitude of 3650 meters, Julv 1902, //<. cock 3611 (herb. N. Y. Bot. Card.).
DISTRIBUTION: Mount Dana and Mount Whitney. Sierra Nevada, California.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
