Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus tiburonensis |
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Bruneau mariposa lily, pinyon mariposa |
Tiburon 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 branching, 1–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal persistent, 1–7 dm; blade lanceolate, flat. |
Inflorescences | 1–4-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm. |
2–several-flowered. |
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; petals light yellow-green, flecked and streaked purplish brown, oblanceolate, ciliate to near apex, hairy; glands depressed, bordered proximally by ciliate membrane, distally by 2 or more rows of short hairs; anthers short-tipped. |
Capsules | erect, linear-lanceoloid, angled, 3–7 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, angled, apex acute. |
Seeds | yellow, flat. |
dark brown, irregular. |
2n | = 14. |
= 20. |
Calochortus bruneaunis |
Calochortus tiburonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer. | Flowering late spring–early summer. |
Habitat | Dry brushy, grassy slopes, flats, pinyon-juniper woodlands | Serpentine grasslands |
Elevation | 900–3000 m (3000–9800 ft) | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT
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CA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Calochortus tiburonensis is known only from Ring Mountain, Marin County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26. | FNA vol. 26, p. 131. |
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) | A. J. Hill: Madroño 22: 100, fig. 1. (1973) |
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