Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Mascagnia cana Small
Hiraea sericea Engelm.; A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 37. 1852. Not H. sericea A. Juss. 1832. Mascagnia sericea Niedzu. Gen. Masc. 29. 1908.
Leaf-blades linear-oblong to ovate, 1 cm. long or less, acute or mucronate, revolute, sericeous above, lanate beneath, obtuse or subcordate at the base, very short-petioled or sessile ; sepals ovate, about 2 mm. long, the glands about one half the length of the sepalbody ; petals purplish, 5-6 mm. long, with undulate or erose blades; samaras suborbicular, 15-1S mm. wide, the dorsal wing as large as the lateral ones or larger.
Type locality : Cadena, Durango. Distribution : Northern Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
