Jepson Interchange (more information)
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This page is based on the 1993 Jepson Manual.
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©Copyright 1993 by the Regents of the University of California
Print edition is available from the University of California Press |
| The second edition of The Jepson Manual (2012) is available from the University of California Press | |
| See also the Jepson eFlora, which parallels the Second Edition |
Shrub (sometimes climbing), tree, sometimes thorny, generally glabrous
Leaves simple, opposite or alternate, ephemeral to persistent, subsessile or petioled; veins pinnate
Inflorescence: cluster, cyme, raceme, panicle, or flower solitary, axillary or terminal, bracted
Flower generally bisexual, radial, small; hypanthium ± cup-shaped; sepals 4–5; petals (0)4–5, free; stamens 4–5, alternate petals, attached below or to rim of disk; ovary superior or ± embedded in disk, 2–5-chambered, placentas axile or basal, style generally 1, short, stigma ± head-like, 2–5-lobed
Fruit: capsule, winged achene, berry, drupe, or nutlet, often 1-chambered
Seed generally 1 per chamber, arilled
Genera in family: 50 genera, 800 species: worldwide, especially se Asia; some ornamental (Celastrus, Euonymus, Maytenus,, Paxistima )
Reference: [Brizicky 1964 J Arnold Arbor 45:206–234]
Shrub, erect, scabrous
Leaves alternate, persistent, ascending, leathery, entire; margin generally thicker
Inflorescence: panicle, terminal; flowers many
Flower: parts in 5's; hypanthium obconic; petals white; disk fused to hypanthium except at top, fleshy, ± white, becoming red-purple; ovary superior, narrowly ovoid, stigma lobes 5, slender, spreading
Fruit: nutlets 5, oblong-cylindric, light brown
Seed 1 per nutlet, straw-colored, very difficult to separate from nutlet; aril 0
Species in genus: 5 species: sw US, Mex
Etymology: (S.G. Morton, 19th century North America naturalist)
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Plant 3–12 dm, coarsely scabrous
Stem: twigs creamy white, turning gray
Leaf: petiole ± 0–1 mm; blade 6–16 mm, ovate to round, from above transversely concave and longitudinally convex, base rounded to tapered, tip round to acute, sometimes with small point
Inflorescence 8–65 mm, 6–23 mm wide
Flower: hypanthium 1.5–2 mm; sepals 1–2.3 mm, tips often acute, keeled; petals 2.2–3 mm, ovate
Fruit 5–7 mm, glabrous
Ecology: Limestone slopes, canyon bottoms
Elevation: 900–2100 m.
Bioregional distribution: Desert Mountains (Inyo, ne San Bernardino cos.)
Distribution outside California: to sw Utah
Flowering time: Mar–MayHorticultural information: DRN, DRY: 1, 2, 3, 10; DFCLT.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.| YOU CAN HELP US make sure that our distributional information is correct and current. If you know that a plant occurs in a wild, reproducing state in a Jepson bioregion NOT highlighted on the map, please contact us with that information. Please realize that we cannot incorporate range extensions without access to a voucher specimen, which should (ultimately) be deposited in an herbarium. You can send the pressed, dried collection (with complete locality information indicated) to us (e-mail us for details) or refer us to an accessioned herbarium specimen. Non-occurrence of a plant in an indicated area is difficult to document, but we will especially value your input on those types of possible errors (see automatic conversion of distribution data to maps). |
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