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Plectritis ciliosa


Higher Taxonomy
Family: ValerianaceaeView DescriptionDichotomous Key
Common Name: VALERIAN FAMILY
Habit: Annual, perennial herb, occasionally strongly scented, odor generally unpleasant. Leaf: simple to pinnately lobed or compound; petioles generally sheathing; basal +- whorled; cauline opposite, petioled to sessile. Inflorescence: cyme, panicle, or head-like, generally +- dense. Flower: generally bisexual; calyx fused to ovary tip, limb 0 or lobes generally 5--15, coiled inward, plumose in age, pappus-like, spreading in fruit; corolla radial to 2-lipped, lobes generally 5, throat generally > lobes, > tube, base generally spurred or swollen, tube slender, long or short; stamens generally 1--3, fused to petals; ovary inferior, chamber generally 1, or occasionally 3 but 2 empty or vestigial. Fruit: achene, smooth, ribbed, or winged.
Genera In Family: +- 17 genera, 300 species: generally temperate, worldwide except Australia. Some species cultivated (Centranthus), some medicinal (Valeriana).
eFlora Treatment Author: Abigail J. Moore & Lauramay T. Dempster, except as noted
Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Genus: PlectritisView DescriptionDichotomous Key


Habit: Annual, glabrous to subglabrous. Stem: generally erect, 5--80 cm, ×-section generally angled, branches 0--few. Leaf: simple, basal and cauline, opposite, generally entire; basal short-petioled, spoon-shaped; cauline generally sessile, oblong to ovate or obovate. Inflorescence: clustered, head-like or interrupted spike, terminal; bracts palmately divided into 3--5 linear segments. Flower: calyx 0; corolla 2-lipped to +- radial and funnel-shaped, white to dark pink, tube base generally spurred; stamens 3. Fruit: achene; body +- triangular, 2--4 mm, strongly winged or not, wings lateral, wide, +- glabrous to densely hairy.
Etymology: (Greek: spur) Note: Self-fertile; large-flowered taxa cross- and self-pollinated, small flowered taxa self-pollinated only. Wing shape, color, hairiness vary in some species.
eFlora Treatment Author: Abigail J. Moore
Reference: Morey 1962 Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford Univ
Plectritis ciliosa (Greene) Jeps.
NATIVE
Inflorescence: bracts +- red. Flower: corolla 1.5--8.5 mm, pink to dark pink, 2-lipped, lower lip with 2 red spots; spur slender, pointed. Fruit: convex side of mature fruit grooved lengthwise down keel, winged, pink to brown when immature; wing hairs in vertical bands especially near body, wing margin >= 2 × as thick as wing body when immature, > 3.5 × as thick as wing body when mature, wing margin rolled inwards. Chromosomes: 2n=32.
Ecology: Common. Open, partly shaded slopes; Elevation: < 2100 m. Bioregional Distribution: CA-FP; Distribution Outside California: to Washington, Arizona, northern Baja California. Flowering Time: Mar--Jun
Synonyms: Plectritis ciliosa subsp. ciliosa; Plectritis ciliosa subsp. insignis (Suksd.) Morey
Jepson eFlora Author: Abigail J. Moore
Reference: Morey 1962 Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford Univ
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Citation for this treatment: Abigail J. Moore 2012, Plectritis ciliosa, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=38677, accessed on April 25, 2024.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 25, 2024.

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