Boechera paupercula |
Boechera ultra-alsa |
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boechera paupercula, littleleaf rockcress, small-flower rock-cress, tiny suncress |
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Habit | Perennials; long-lived; (cespitose); sexual; caudex often woody. | Perennials; long-lived; reproductive mode unknown; caudex woody. |
Stems | usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 0.3–1.5 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2–4-rayed, (0.07–)0.1–0.2 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent distally. |
1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, ca. 1 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes stalked, (2 or) 3–6-rayed, 0.2–0.5 mm, glabrate distally. |
Basal leaves | blade linear-oblanceolate, 1–3(–5) mm wide, margins entire, ciliate proximally, trichomes to 0.4 mm, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes short-stalked, 2–6-rayed, (0.07–)0.1–0.2 mm. |
blade oblanceolate, 4–6 mm wide, margins entire, not ciliate, surfaces moderately pubescent, trichomes long-stalked, 3–6 (or 7)-rayed, 0.2–0.5 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 2–6, rarely concealing stem; blade auricles 0 (or 0.2–1.5) mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. |
2–5, concealing stem proximally; blade auricles absent, surfaces of distalmost leaves pubescent. |
Racemes | 3–8-flowered, unbranched. |
3- or 4-flowered, unbranched. |
Flowers | erect at anthesis; sepals glabrous or sparsely pubescent; petals lavender to purplish, 4–6(–7) × 1–2 mm, glabrous; pollen ellipsoid. |
not seen. |
Fruiting pedicels | erect, straight, 3–9 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. |
erect-ascending, straight, 4–5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, trichomes appressed, branched. |
Fruits | erect, appressed to rachis, not secund, straight, edges parallel, 2.5–5.5 cm × 1.3–1.7(–2) mm; valves glabrous; ovules 24–40 per ovary; style 0.2–1 mm. |
erect-ascending, sometimes appressed to rachis, not secund, straight, edges parallel, 3–4 cm × ca. 5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules ca. 16 per ovary; style 0.5–0.7 mm. |
Seeds | usually uniseriate, rarely sub-biseriate, 1.5–2(–2.5) × 1–1.4 mm; wing continuous, 0.3–1 mm wide. |
uniseriate, 5.5–6.5 × 4–4.5 mm; wing continuous, 1–2 mm wide. |
Boechera paupercula |
Boechera ultra-alsa |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Rock outcrops, talus slopes, gravelly soil in alpine and subalpine habitats | Rocky soil |
Elevation | 2400-3400 m (7900-11200 ft) | ca. 1800 m (ca. 5900 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; OR; WA; WY
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CA |
Discussion | Boechera paupercula is usually subsumed under Arabis (Boechera) lyallii but is amply distinct (see M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2006 for detailed comparison). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Boechera ultra-alsa is known only from the holotype, from Snow Mountain in Lake County. Originally identified as Arabis (Boechera) platysperma, this specimen differs from that taxon by having petioles without obvious cilia, basal leaves with long-stalked (0.1–0.2 versus less than 0.1 mm) trichomes, and fruits edges parallel (not undulate or constricted between the seeds). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 394. | FNA vol. 7, p. 410. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera | Brassicaceae > tribe Boechereae > Boechera |
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Synonyms | Arabis paupercula, Arabis lyallii var. nubigena, Arabis microphylla var. nubigena, Arabis nubigena | |
Name authority | (Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 75. (2006) | Windham & Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 86. (2006) |
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