Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus nitidus |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
broad-fruit mariposa lily, broadfruit mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |
Stems | usually not branching or twisted, 1–4 dm. |
not branching, straight, 2–4 dm, proximal internodes elongate; bulblets rare. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal usually persistent, 1–3 dm × 10–25 mm; blade flat, tapering toward both ends, becoming involute; cauline ca. halfway up stem. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
subumbellate, 1–4-flowered; bracts 2 or more, narrowly lanceolate to linear, long-attenuate, unequal, 2–10 cm. |
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 to lanceolate, shorter than petals, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals lavender, with deep purple adaxial crescent distal to gland, obovate, cuneate, ± ciliate laterally, sparingly covered with long, flexuous hairs distal to gland; glands ± triangular-lunate, slightly depressed, bordered proximally by narrow, deeply fringed membrane, covered with short, thick hairs, hairs and membrane fringe densely covered with long papillae; filaments longer than anthers; anthers oblong, 6–10 mm, apex obtuse. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, 3-winged, ellipsoid to nearly globular. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
light beige. |
2n | = 14. |
= 40. |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus nitidus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Low meadows along creeks |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 700–900 m (2300–3000 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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ID; OR; WA
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 129. |
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) | Douglas: Trans. Hort. Soc. London 7: 277, plate 9A. (1828) |
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