Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Leucothoe mexicana (Hemsl.) Small
Andromeda mexicana Hemsl. Biol. Centr. Am. Bot. 2: 282. 1881.
An evergreen (?) shrub with slender branches, the twigs puberulent or glabrous; leafblades thin-leathery, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm. long, long-acuminate or caudate-acuminate, entire, not reticulate, green, darker above than beneath and somewhat shining, cuneate to rounded at the base, slender-petioled ; panicles corymb-like, axillary, mostly 1-2 cm. long, f evtr-flowered ; calyx sparingly pubescent, 4-4.5 mm. wide, the lobes deltoid-ovate to reniform-ovate, acute or abruptly short-acuminate; corolla cylindric-urceolate, 9-12 mm. long; capsules spheroidal, 5-6 mm. broad.
Type locality: Sierra San Pedro Molasco, Mexico. Distribution: Mountains of southern Mexico and Guatemala.
- 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
