Common Name: MILKWORT FAMILY Habit: [Annual] perennial herb, subshrub, shrub [tree, vine]; hairs unbranched. Leaf: simple, generally alternate (opposite or whorled); veins pinnate; margin generally +- entire; stipules generally 0. Inflorescence: raceme, spike, or panicle. Flower: bisexual, generally bilateral and +- pea-flower-like [or +- radial]; sepals 5, fused or not, lateral or inner pair generally larger and petal-like (called wings); petals 5[3], fused to stamen tube, [+- similar or] different with 1 lower keel petal, 2 strap-like upper petals, and 2[0] lateral petals; stamens 3--10, +- fused, tube open at top; ovary chambers 1--8 with 1 ovule each, style 1 or 0. Fruit: capsule [drupe or nut; occasionally winged]. Seed: often with aril. Genera In Family: 29 genera, 1000 species: especially tropics, subtropics, few cultivated. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston & Thomas L. Wendt Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin.
Common Name: MILKWORT Habit: Root odor generally wintergreen. Inflorescence: raceme, occasionally grouped and panicle-like; cleistogamous flowers occasionally solitary. Flower: bilateral; lateral 2 sepals enlarged; petals 3 or 5, keel petal generally with cylindric beak; stamens 6--8, anthers dehiscent at tip, appearing 1-chambered; with nectary disk or gland; ovary chambers 2, stigma 2-lobed. Fruit: capsule. Seed: fusiform or ovoid, black, generally hairy, generally with prominent white aril on 1 end. Etymology: (Greek: snout keel, for beaked keel petal) Note:Polygala as treated broadly in TJM2 is not monophyletic; all CA milkworts now in Rhinotropis (Abbott 2011). eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston & Thomas L. Wendt Reference: Wendt 1979 J Arnold Arbor 60:504--514; Abbott 2011 JBRIT 5:125--137
Habit: Generally from rhizome. Leaf: 10--65 mm, linear to ovate. Flower: wings ciliate, glabrous to puberulent, cream or +- green to pink; keel petal beak 0.5--2.5 mm, entire, +- 0.2 mm diam near tip, dull rose to green when pollen shed. Fruit: 5.9--10 mm including stalk, dark yellow-brown. Seed: 4.5--7.3 mm including hairs; aril hairy. Chromosomes: 2n=18.
Rhinotropis cornuta (Kellogg) J.R. Abbott var. fishiae (Parry) J.R. Abbott
NATIVE Habit: Shrub, generally forming thickets < 2 m diam. Stem: decumbent to erect, 6--25 dm. Leaf: length > 2 × width. Flower: 7--11.2 mm; upper sepal generally rounded or obtuse, wings and at least outer sepals tips dark pink in bud, wings ciliate, glabrous or puberulent only near tip. Ecology: Chaparral, oak woodland; Elevation: 90--1270 m. Bioregional Distribution: s SCoRO, WTR, SnGb, PR; Distribution Outside California: northern Baja California. Flowering Time: May--Aug Note: Plants in southern SCoRO, WTR (Santa Ynez Mountains) with green-white flowers, wings puberulent, named Polygala cornuta var. pollardii Munz, Pollard's milkwort. Synonyms: Polygala cornuta var. fishiae (Parry) Jeps. Unabridged Synonyms: Polygala cornuta subsp. fishiae (Parry) Munz Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston & Thomas L. Wendt Reference: Wendt 1979 J Arnold Arbor 60:504--514; Abbott 2011 JBRIT 5:125--137 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Rhinotropis cornuta var. cornuta Next taxon: Rhinotropis heterorhyncha
Botanical illustration including Rhinotropis cornuta var. fishiae
Citation for this treatment: Robert E. Preston & Thomas L. Wendt 2022, Rhinotropis cornuta var. fishiae, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 11, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=99817, accessed on May 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on May 16, 2024.
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