Flora of North America species comparison

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Allotropa virgata

candystick, sugarstick
Inflorescences

1.5–5 dm;

bracts white, thin, 0.5–3 × 0.2–0.9 cm.
Flowers

sepals 4–7 × 1–1.5 mm;

petals elliptic to orbiculate, concave, 3–6 × 2–4 mm, base not saccate, margins irregular to lacerate;

stamens inverted at anthesis, depressed-ovoid, 3–5 mm;

anthers 1–1.5 mm diam.;

ovary 2–4 × 3–5 mm, glabrous;

style 0.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm;

stigma 1.5–2.5 mm diam., apex slightly depressed.
Capsules

5-segmented, 4–7 × 6–8 mm.
Seeds

0.5–1.2 mm.
2n

= 26.

Allotropa virgata
Phenology Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat Moist, mixed-deciduous or coniferous forests
Elevation 70-3100 m (200-10200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 391.
Parent taxa Ericaceae > subfam. Monotropoideae > Allotropa
Name authority Torrey & A. Gray: in War Department [U.S.], Pacif. Railr. Rep. 6(3): 80, 81. 1858 ,
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