Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus indecorus |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
sexton mountain mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | |||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
stout, not branching, 16–22 cm, not bearing bulblets. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal 2–25 dm × 8–12 mm; cauline usually present. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
2–6-flowered. |
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Flowers | erect; perianth open, cup-shaped; sepals usually with red-brown blotch at base, lanceolate-ovate, 2–4 cm, apex acute; petals lemon to golden yellow, with transverse line distal to gland, broadly cuneate to obovate, 3–5 cm; glands round, deeply depressed, densely covered with short hairs with branching, coralline tips, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane and club-shaped hairs; filaments ca. 10 mm; anthers purplish brown, oblong, 4–10 mm. |
± erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals broadly lanceolate, somewhat shorter than petals; petals bright lavender, broadly obovate, adaxial surface glabrous or with short, purple hairs distal to gland, apex margins erose; glands slightly depressed, surrounded proximally by minutely denticulate membrane; filaments longer than anthers; anthers oblong, apex acute to obtuse. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
nodding, narrowly 3-winged, ovoid, 1.5–2 cm. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
unknown. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus indecorus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring. | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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OR |
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Calochortus indecorus was collected from the western slope of Sexton Mountain, northeastern Josephine County. Endemic to that area, the taxon is now presumed extinct. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 127. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Ownbey & M. Peck: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 191. (1954) | ||||||||||||||||
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