Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 3 to 8 mm long, hypanthium narrowly obconic, 4.2 to 5.6 mm long, 1.73 mm wide at rim, 0.5 to 1.2 mm wide at base, subglabrous to puberulent, sepals 3.8 to 5.2 mm long, 1.2 to 1.8 to 2 mm wide, rotund, apex rounded, glabrous to puberulent, nectary deeply four-lobed, 0.6 to 0.8 mm high, episepalous stamens exserted 0.8 to 1.1 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, filaments equal, 0.6 to 0.9 mm long, anthers 1 to 1.4 mm long, 0.4 to 0.6 mm thick, style 9.2 to 10.9 mm long, the stigma exserted 3.5 to 5.6 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes spreading, 0.9 to 1.1 mm long. pistillate flowers, pedicels 1 to 3 mm long, hypanthium 2.2 to 3.6 mm long, 1.3 to 1.8 mm wide at rim, 0.3 to 0.8 mm wide at base, sepals 2 to 3.2 mm long, 0.9 to 1.2 mm wide at base, petals 1.2 to 1.5 mm long, 0.8 to 1.2 mm wide, nectary 0.3 to 0.5 mm high, style 4.6 to 5.8 mm long, the stigma exserted 1 to 1.8 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.9 to 1.2 mm long.
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Seed : 25-36 per berry, 1-1.2mm long x 0.5-0.7mm wide
Habit : shrub
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Height : 0.5-2 m
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Year (of first description) : 1969
Botanist : Breedlove
Authors : (Munz) Breedlove 1969
Original publication : Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 43 1969
Habitat : scattered to rare in mixed evergreen forests of pine and oak in southeastern Hidalgo and northern Puebla states
Elevation : 1600-2200
Native country : Central Mexico
Synonyms : F. minutiflora, Hemsley, var. hidalgensis, Munz 1943
Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
Leaves : subcoriaceous, serrate from the apex for about three-quarters of the margin, 4 to 12 teeth on each side, ciliate on the margins and veins, petiole 0.5- to mm long
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Leaf dimensions : 6-25mm long x 4-10mm wide
Leaf shape : lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate
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Leaf tip : acute to mucronate
Leaf base : attenuate
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Branches : branchlets 5 to 30 cm long, canescent with brown hairs, older branches 5 to 15 mm thick