Habit: Perennial herb, taprooted, cushion-forming, generally coarsely hairy or tomentose.
Stem: 0.
Leaf: basal-most bladeless sheaths; distal blades narrowly ovate to round, pinnately or ternately dissected, segments lanceolate or oblong.
Inflorescence: umbels compound, head-like, spheric or hemispheric; peduncles spreading; bracts 0; involucel 1-sided, bractlets fused to +- free; rays few to many, spreading to spreading-ascending; fertile pedicels short, sterile > fruit.
Flower: bisexual, staminate, or sterile; calyx lobes conspicuous or not; petals spoon-shaped or oblanceolate, generally white or yellow, or purple in age, early-deciduous, tips narrowed; ovary tip projection 0.
Fruit: ovate to round, +- compressed side-to-side to cylindric, hairy; ribs +- equal, thread-like; oil tubes several per rib-interval; fruit axis divided to base.
Seed: face deeply grooved.
Species In Genus: 3 species: high mountains of CA-FP.
Etymology: (Greek: mountain dwarf)
Jepson eFlora Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax
Reference: [Shevock & Norris 1981 Fremontia 9:22--25]
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Oreonana
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