Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus kennedyi |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
desert mariposa, desert mariposa lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stems | slender or coarse, stout, branching or not, strongly flexuous, 3–10 dm. |
usually not branching but sometimes twisted, 1–2(–5) dm. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
blade linear-attenuate; basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade channeled, glaucous. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm, bases dilated. |
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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, each member often with brown-purple blotch near base; sepals ovate, 2–3 cm, apex acute; petals orange to red or ± yellow, cuneate to obovate, 3–5 cm, with a few slightly enlarged hairs near gland; glands round, depressed, surrounded by conspicuously fringed membrane, densely covered with unbranched or cleft hairs; filaments 4–5 mm; anthers purplish, lanceolate, 5–8 mm. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, longitudinally striped, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 4–6 cm, apex acuminate. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
flat. |
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2n | = 16. |
=16. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus kennedyi |
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Distribution |
CA
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sw United States; nw Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | |||||||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | Porter: Bot. Gaz. 2: 79. (1877) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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