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| Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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Perennial from corm, outer coat fibrous [ membranous].
Leaf: basal, 1–10, linear to narrow- lanceolate.
Inflorescence: scapose, generally umbel-like; scape erect, generally 1(2), cylindric, generally rigid, occasionally wavy to twining; flower bracts 2–4[10], not enclosing flower buds.
Flower: perianth parts 6 in 2 petal-like whorls, free or ± fused below into tube; staminodes 0 or 3; stamens 3 or 6, free or fused to perianth, occasionally appendaged; ovary superior, chambers 3, ovules 2–several per chamber.
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal.
10–11 genera, 60–70 species: w North America. [Pires & Sytsma 2002 Amer J Bot 89:1342–1359] —Scientific Editors: Dale W. McNeal, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Corm ± spheric, daughter corms 1–3 on stalks.Key to Bloomeria
Leaf: 1–8, keeled, entire, withered in flower.
Inflorescence: scape stiff, straight, cylindric, minute- scabrous; bracts 2–4, not enclosing flower buds, scarious in flower; pedicels ray-like, ascending to erect, jointed; flowers 10–35+.
Flower: perianth parts ± free at base, not forming obvious tube, golden-yellow, striped ± brown or green, lobes ascending to spreading; stamens 6, filaments ± 6 mm, parallel to style, dilated bases fused to form nectar cup with shallow to awned cusps, or leaning away from style, leaving dilated bases separated, not forming cup, distally thread-like, anthers attached near base; style ± 5 mm, thread- or club-like, persistent, stigma 3-lobed.
Fruit: 5–6 mm, ± spheric, 3-angled, sessile.
Seed: angled, wrinkled, black-crusted.
3 species: c&s CA, n Baja CA. (H.G. Bloomer, early San Francisco botanist)
Unabridged etymology: (Dr. H.G. Bloomer, early San Francisco botanist, one of three founders of the California Academy of Sciences)
Unabridged references: [Hoover 1955 Herbertia 11:13–23; Ingram 1953 Madroño 12:19–27]
Previous taxon: Androstephium breviflorum
Next taxon: Bloomeria clevelandii
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates. | Map made in collaboration with Scott Loarie. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.
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