Common Name: BASTARD TOADFLAX FAMILY Habit: Perennial herb, subshrub, green root-parasite; stems, leaves glabrous. Leaf: entire, simple [reduced to scales], alternate; stipules 0. Inflorescence: generally small, simple or compound cymes, axillary or terminal. Flower: bisexual [unisexual]; perianth lobes [4]5(6); stamens opposite petals, on fleshy disk; ovary inferior, chamber 1, ovules 2--4, suspended from top of free-central placenta, style 1, stigma lobes 2--4. Fruit: drupe. Seed: 1, spheric [ovoid]. Genera In Family: 2 genera, 2 species: North America, Europe, Mediterranean. Note: Segregated, along with other families, from otherwise paraphyletic Santalaceae (Nickrent et al.). eFlora Treatment Author: Danica T. Harbaugh Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: BASTARD TOADFLAX Habit: Rhizome extensive. Stem: green, blue-green, or +- gray, striate. Leaf: +- sessile. Flower: subtended by bractlet; perianth tube bell- or urn-shaped, lobes 5(6); stamen base hair-tufted. Fruit: crowned by persistent calyx. Etymology: (Greek: hair, man, for hairy stamen bases) Unabridged Reference: Piehl 1965 Mem Torrey Bot Club 22(1):1--97
Comandra umbellata (L.) Nutt. subsp. californica (Eastw. ex Rydb.) Piehl.
NATIVE Stem: many from rhizome, 10--40 cm, branched, glaucous. Leaf: 15--55 mm, lanceolate, acute to sharp-pointed, abaxially paler or not. Flower: 2--3.5 mm; calyx lobes lanceolate to narrow-ovate, +- white; anthers +- 0.5 mm. Fruit: 5--7.5 mm, oblong-ovoid. Ecology: Generally dry, +- rocky areas; Elevation: 300--3000 m. Bioregional Distribution: KR, CaR, SN, SNE, n DMoj; Distribution Outside California: to British Columbia, southwestern Nevada, northwestern Arizona. Flowering Time: Apr--Aug Jepson eFlora Author: Danica T. Harbaugh Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Comandra Next taxon: Convolvulaceae
Botanical illustration including Comandra umbellata subsp. californica
Citation for this treatment: Danica T. Harbaugh 2012, Comandra umbellata subsp. californica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=49946, accessed on December 06, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 06, 2023.
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