Common Name: BORAGE FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, or shrub, often bristly or sharp-hairy. Stem: prostrate-decumbent to erect. Leaf: basal and/or cauline, simple, generally alternate, sometimes opposite, especially at base. Inflorescence: cymes, arranged singly or in groups of 2--5, generally coiled in flower, generally elongating in fruit. Flower: bisexual, generally radial; sepals 5, free or fused at least at base; corolla 5-lobed, salverform, funnel-shaped, rotate, or bell-shaped, appendages (often called "fornices") 0 or 5 at top of tube, when present often differentially pigmented, alternate stamens; stamens epipetalous; ovary superior, 4-lobed, style 1, entire or minutely 2-lobed (2-branched). Fruit: nutlets 1--4, when > 1, all similar (often called "homomorphic") or 1 or 2 dissimilar in size and/or shape from the others (often called "heteromorphic"), free (fused), smooth to roughened, prickly or bristly or not. Genera In Family: +- 90 genera, +- 1600--1700 species: mostly temperate, especially western North America, Mediterranean; some cultivated (Borago, Echium, Myosotis, Symphytum). Toxicity: Many genera may be TOXIC from pyrrolizidine alkaloids or accumulated nitrates. Note: Sometimes still treated in broader sense of TJM2 (e.g., APG IV 2016 Bot J Linn Soc 181:1--20), but recent evidence (Luebert et al. 2016) supports segregation, for our flora, of the families Ehretiaceae, Heliotropiaceae, Hydrophyllaceae, Lennoaceae, and Namaceae. eFlora Treatment Author: Michael G. Simpson, C. Matt Guilliams, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman & Ronald B. Kelley Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, C. Matt Guilliams, Kristen Hasenstab-Lehman, David J. Keil, Ronald B. Kelley, Robert W. Patterson, Thomas J. Rosatti & Michael G. Simpson
Cryptantha kinkiensis Rebman & M.G. Simpson
NATIVE Habit: Plant 10--35 cm. Stem: branches several from base; sparse-appressed- and spreading-short-rough-hairy. Leaf: 1.5--2 cm, lanceolate to linear, adaxially appressed-hairy, hairs minutely bulbous-based; abaxially coarse-bristly, hairs prominently bulbous-based. Inflorescence: cymes mostly in 2s; bracts generally 1 near base; pedicel stout, 0.5--1 mm. Flower: calyx +- 2 mm, 4--5 mm and ascending in fruit, lance-ovoid, lobes lanceolate, tips often recurved, appressed soft-hairy along margins, midvein thickened with spreading to reflexed coarse-bristles; corolla deciduous, limb 4--7(--8) mm diam, appendages yellow to white. Fruit: nutlets generally 4, (1.5--)1.6--1.9 mm, lance-ovate, brown, not flattened, margin rounded, surfaces papillate and densely and finely-tubercled throughout, base truncate, tip slightly acuminate, ridge 0; abaxially low convex; adaxially shallowly convex, attachment scar edges not raised, +- abutted throughout, forked and triangular-flare-gapped at base; style extended to 0.5 mm beyond nutlet length. Ecology: Flats and clayey slopes, island scrub and grassland vegetation, mostly at higher elevations (> 200 m) throughout much of the island; Elevation: 50--600 m. Bioregional Distribution: s ChI (San Clemente Island). Flowering Time: Mar--May Note: Previously treated as C. traskiae, but differs in habit, inflorescence morphology, corolla size, calyx hairs, and nutlet morphology (see Rebman & Simpson 2022). Jepson eFlora Author: Michael G. Simpson, Kristen E. Hasenstab-Lehman, Makenzie E. Mabry, and Ronald B. Kelley Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Cryptantha juniperensis Next taxon: Cryptantha leiocarpa
Citation for this treatment: Michael G. Simpson, Kristen E. Hasenstab-Lehman, Makenzie E. Mabry, and Ronald B. Kelley 2021, Cryptantha kinkiensis, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 9, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=84664, accessed on October 03, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 03, 2023.
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