Common Name: PHLOX FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine. Leaf: simple or compound, cauline (or most basal), alternate or opposite; stipules 0. Inflorescence: cymes, heads, clusters, or flower 1; bracts in involucres or not. Flower: sepals generally 5, fused at base, translucent membrane generally connecting lobes, torn by fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at >= 1 level, filaments of >= 1 length, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3. Fruit: capsule. Seed: 1--many, when wetted swelling or not, gelatinous or not. Genera In Family: 26 genera, 314 species: America, northern Europe, northern Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox). Note:Leptodactylon moved to Linanthus. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert W. Patterson, family description, key to genera, except as noted Scientific Editor: Robert W. Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Annual, perennial herb. Stem: generally erect, generally branched from base. Leaf: cauline, opposite, entire or lobes 3--9, palmate, linear to narrowly lanceolate or spoon-shaped, generally not fused by membrane. Inflorescence: head, open clusters, few-flowered cyme, or flower 1; bracts +- leaf-like, generally palmate-lobed, lobes generally not connected by translucent membrane; flowers sessile or not. Flower: sepals generally equal; corolla funnel-shaped, salverform, or bell-shaped, with hairy ring inside tube or generally not (determined at 10×); stamens attached at 1 level, pollen yellow. Etymology: (Greek: narrow tube, for corollas of some species) Note: Calyx lobe membrane generally expressed as length relative to calyx or lobe length, or as width relative to calyx lobe. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert W. Patterson & Robyn Battaglia Reference: Battaglia & Patterson 2001 Madroño 48:62--78; Porter & Patterson 2015 Aliso 32:55--88; Patterson 2021 Phytoneuron 2021-58:1
Leptosiphon ambiguus (Rattan) J.M. Porter & L.A. Johnson
NATIVE Habit: Annual, glabrous or hairy. Stem: 10--20 mm, thread-like. Leaf: lobes 3--5 mm, narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence: few-flowered cyme or flower 1; pedicel 5--25 mm, thread-like. Flower: calyx 3--6 mm, generally hairy, membrane generally = calyx; corolla funnel-shaped, tube 3--6 mm, purple, with wide hairy ring inside near throat, throat 3 mm, generally maroon, lobes 4--6 mm, lanceolate, pink, bases yellow, occasionally with white distal to yellow; stamens attached above hairy ring, exserted; stigmas 1--2 mm. Chromosomes: 2n=18. Ecology: Grassy areas generally on serpentine soil; Elevation: < 1000 m. Bioregional Distribution: SnJV, SnFrB, SCoRI. Flowering Time: Apr--May Synonyms: Linanthus ambiguus (Rattan) Greene Jepson eFlora Author: Robert W. Patterson & Robyn Battaglia Reference: Battaglia & Patterson 2001 Madroño 48:62--78; Porter & Patterson 2015 Aliso 32:55--88; Patterson 2021 Phytoneuron 2021-58:1 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Leptosiphon Next taxon: Leptosiphon androsaceus
Citation for this treatment: Robert W. Patterson & Robyn Battaglia 2021, Leptosiphon ambiguus, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 9, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=80953, accessed on December 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on December 03, 2024.
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