Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus monanthus |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
Shasta River mariposa lily, single-flower mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. |
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
not branching, straight. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
1-flowered, long-peduncled; bracts opposite. |
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, turbinate to campanulate; sepals lanceolate, attenuate, ca. 4 cm; petals pinkish, with chevron-shaped, dark red blotch distal to gland, obovate, cuneate, rounded, ca. 5 cm, with few flexible hairs near gland, margins irregularly dentate distally; glands oblong, not depressed, densely covered with slender, unbranched hairs; filaments lanceolate-linear, shorter than anthers; anthers short-tipped. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
unknown. |
2n | = 14. |
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Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus monanthus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Vernal meadows |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 800 m (2600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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CA |
Discussion | Calochortus monanthus is known only from a single collection from meadow along the Shasta River, near Yreka, Siskiyou County, by E. L. Greene in June, 1876. It is presumed extinct. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 133. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | C. nuttallii var. bruneaunis | |
Name authority | A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 55: 372. (1913) | Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 465, plate 39, figs. 3, 4. (1940) |
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