13 September 2019.
Tennessee, United States
Locality: Franklin County; Walls of Jericho: approaching from hunting trail and heading south along Turkey Creek
Coordinates: 35.0040, -86.1128
(Map it)
Elevation: 358m.
Habitat: Wild Habitat
Environment description: Limestone bluffs surrounding dry creek bed in mixed mesophytic forest
Associated species: Vitex rotundifolia, Microstegium vimineum, Cercis canadensis, Smilax sp., Carpinus caroliniana, Lobelia cardinalis, Lobelia siphilitica, Liriodendron tulipifera, Hamamelis virginiana, Platanus occidentalis, Tilia americana, Hydrangea arborescens, Toxicodendron radicans
Aspect: ;
Slope: 0 Degrees;
Soil Texture:
Comment: Shrub; bark brownish pubescent to glabrous smooth; leaves broad-elliptic to nearly round, obovate (base strongly oblique and rounded, apex acute to short acuminate); margins coarsely-dentate; abaxially pale-green not glaucous, adaxially medium to dark green; flowers not present; capsule, tan, 10-14 mm.
Collector(s): - Deng, Tao, Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS
- Gao, Xinfen, Chengdu Institute of Biology
- Gapinski, Andrew, Arnold Arboretum
- Halloran, Sean, Arnold Arboretum
- Kang, Wang, Education Department and Plant Documentation & Information
- Rubinstein, Jared, Arnold Arboretum