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Leucothoe fontanesiana
(Steud.) Sleumer
(redirected from:
Leucothoe editorum
Fernald & Schub.)
Family:
Ericaceae
Highland Doghobble
[
Leucothoe editorum
Fernald & Schub.]
Images
not available
FNA
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 8)
Plants
1-2 m, branches spread-ing.
Leaves:
petiole 10-15 mm; blade oblong, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or elliptic, 3-8 cm, margins entire or spinulose-serrulate, apex acute to long-acuminate, abaxial surface sparsely pilose.
Inflorescences
fascicled or solitary, sessile, dense, 20-60-flowered, 4-10 cm; bracts ± persistent, ovate-deltate, 1.7-2.2 mm.
Pedicels
2-2.5 mm.
Flowers:
sepals whitish, lanceolate-ovate, 1.7-2 mm, apex acute or subacute; corolla cylindric, 5-7 mm; filaments papillate (sometimes also spreading-hairy); anthers 1.2-1.5 mm, with 2 awns, thecae divergent distally; ovary glabrous.
Capsules
5-6 mm wide.
Seeds
ellipsoid or oblong; testa firm, reticulate.
2
n
= 22. Flowering mid spring. Woods along mountain streams, mountain ravines, moist slopes, often associated with
Rhododendron maximum
; 200-2000 m; Ala., Ga., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Va.
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