Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus longebarbatus |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
long-bearded mariposa lily, long-bearded sego-lily, long-hair star-tulip, longbeard mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |||||
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
usually not branching, 1–3 dm, proximal internodes very short; bulblet in axil of cauline leaf at or below ground surface. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
single; basal persistent, 2–3 dm; blade linear. |
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Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
1–4-flowered. |
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Flower(s) | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals with dark red or purple blotch near base, lanceolate, 1–4 cm, usually glabrous, apex acuminate; petals white tinged with lilac, with longitudinal median green stripe on abaxial surface and dark red or purple crescent distal to gland, narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm, ± glabrous; glands surrounded by yellow border, round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with short, unbranched or distally branching hairs; filaments 5–6 mm; anthers yellow, blue, or maroon, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex obtuse. |
erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 15–20 mm, apex acuminate; petals light pink to ± lavender, with red-purple adaxial crescent distal to gland, widely obovate-cuneate, 20–30 mm, not ciliate, with a few long hairs; glands bordered proximally by ciliate membrane, distally by short hairs; filaments twice length of anthers; anther apex obtuse to abruptly short-tipped. |
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Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid to ± globular, 2–3 cm. |
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Seeds | yellow, flat. |
light brown, irregular. |
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2n | = 14. |
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Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus longebarbatus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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w United States
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Discussion | recent collections of calochortus longebarbatus from oregon exhibit intergradation in the characters that heretofore have been thought to distinguish the following two varieties (k. l. chambers pers. comm.), and their continued recognition may prove unwarranted Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
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Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | |||||
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 381. (1882) | ||||
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