Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, Vol. 6
Finely papillose-scabrous throughout, the branches of the in?orescence sparsely coarse-hairy; branches elongated, terete; petioles 1 cm. Long, margined, with dilated base, blades 9 13 cm. Long, 5 - 7 cm. Broad, oval, with base very abruptly con tracted into the petiole, apex abruptly produced into an obtusish point 3 - 6 mm. Long and broad, and margin serrate with rather dis tant, erect teeth spinulose toward the apex, obsolete toward the base, pale, membranaceous, the 1 3-15 pairs of primaries distinctly impressed above; ?oral leaves scarce, obovate, 2 cm. Long or less; panicles terminal and in the upper axils, 8-16 cm. Long, 5 - 12 cm. Broad, the branches distant and lax, the ?owers rather densely clustered, sessile to sub-sessile; mature buds 3 mm. In diame ter; petals 2 or 3, strongly veined.
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