Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus pulchellus |
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club hair mariposa, clubhair mariposa lily, slender mariposa lily |
Mount Diablo fairy-lantern, Mt. Diablo fairy-lantern |
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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. |
usually branching distal to base, 1–3 dm, not glaucous. |
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Leaves | basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear. |
basal persistent, 1–4 dm; blade green, lanceolate, tapering at base, flat, not glaucous. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 4–8 cm, bases dilated. |
1–5-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. |
nodding; perianth closed at apex, ± globular; sepals spreading, yellow-green, ovate to lanceolate, 2–3 cm, glabrous, apex acuminate; petals pale yellow, lanceolate, 3–5 cm, conspicuously fringed with short, thick hairs, adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy, apex obtuse; glands deeply depressed, bordered distally by long, slender hairs; filaments 6–8 mm; anthers oblong, 3–5 mm, apex obtuse or acute. |
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Capsules | erect, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 6–9 cm, apex acuminate. |
nodding, winged, ellipsoid-oblong, 2–4 cm. |
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Seeds | light yellow, translucent, flat. |
dark brown, irregular. |
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2n | = 16. |
= 20. |
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Calochortus clavatus |
Calochortus pulchellus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–early summer. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Open places in woods, chaparral, typically on serpentine | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 200–800 m (700–2600 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA
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CA |
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Discussion | Varieties 5 (5 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Calochortus pulchellus is known from Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 123. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Mariposa clavata | Cyclobothra pulchella | ||||||||||||||||
Name authority | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 265. (1879) | (Bentham) Alph. Wood: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 20: 168. (1868) | ||||||||||||||||
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