Calochortus kennedyi |
Calochortus monanthus |
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desert mariposa, desert mariposa lily |
Shasta River mariposa lily, single-flower mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||
Stems | usually not branching but sometimes twisted, 1–2(–5) dm. |
not branching, straight. |
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Leaves | blade linear-attenuate; basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade channeled, glaucous. |
basal withering; blade linear-attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm, bases dilated. |
1-flowered, long-peduncled; bracts opposite. |
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Flowers | 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. |
erect; perianth open, turbinate to campanulate; sepals lanceolate, attenuate, ca. 4 cm; petals pinkish, with chevron-shaped, dark red blotch distal to gland, obovate, cuneate, rounded, ca. 5 cm, with few flexible hairs near gland, margins irregularly dentate distally; glands oblong, not depressed, densely covered with slender, unbranched hairs; filaments lanceolate-linear, shorter than anthers; anthers short-tipped. |
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Capsules | erect, longitudinally striped, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 4–6 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled. |
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Seeds | flat. |
unknown. |
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2n | =16. |
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Calochortus kennedyi |
Calochortus monanthus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | |||||
Habitat | Vernal meadows | |||||
Elevation | 800 m (2600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
sw United States; nw Mexico
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CA |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Calochortus monanthus is known only from a single collection from meadow along the Shasta River, near Yreka, Siskiyou County, by E. L. Greene in June, 1876. It is presumed extinct. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 138. | FNA vol. 26, p. 133. | ||||
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus | ||||
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Name authority | Porter: Bot. Gaz. 2: 79. (1877) | Ownbey: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 27: 465, plate 39, figs. 3, 4. (1940) | ||||
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