Habit: Annual, generally prickly.
Stem: prostrate to generally erect; branches ascending or spreading; glabrous to generally hairy, often glandular.
Leaf: simple, alternate (lowermost opposite), entire to generally deeply pinnate-lobed.
Inflorescence: generally head-like, bracts pinnate- to palmate-toothed or -lobed, spine-tipped (flower 1--2, pedicels elongate, bracts entire, not spine-tipped).
Flower: calyx lobes 4--5, equal, entire or toothed, or unequal, spine-tipped; corolla lobes 4--5; stigmas 2 or 3.
Fruit: generally ovoid, chambers 1--3; dehiscing when wetted, seeds adherent to fruit and each other, or generally dehiscing at maturity, seeds free.
Seed: 1--many per fruit, brown, gelatinous when wet.
Chromosomes: 2n=18.
Species In Genus: +- 40 species: western North America, Argentina, Chile.
Etymology: (F.F. Navarrete, Spanish physician, ?--1742)
Note: Revised taxonomy, too late for full treatment in TJM2, includes
Navarretia linearifolia (Howell) L.A. Johnson subsp.
linearifolia, a +- cryptic segregate of
Navarretia sinistra, and
Navarretia linearifolia subsp.
pinnatisecta (H. Mason & A.D. Grant) L.A. Johnson [
Navarretia sinistra subsp.
pinnatisecta] (Johnson & Cairns-Heath 2010 Syst Bot 35:618--628);
Navarretia paradoxinota and
Navarretia paradoxiclara, both new to science, and
Navarretia propinqua [
Navarretia intertexta subsp.
propinqua] (Johnson et al. 2013 Phytotaxa 91:27--38). Relative positions of flower parts are as pressed, unless stated otherwise.
Jepson eFlora Author: Leigh A. Johnson
Reference: Porter & Johnson 2000 Aliso 19:55--91
Unabridged Reference: Porter 1996 Aliso 15:57--77; Spencer & Porter 1997 Syst Bot 22:649--668Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)Key to Navarretia
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