Calochortus kennedyi |
Calochortus palmeri |
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desert mariposa, desert mariposa lily |
Palmer's mariposa lily, strangling mariposa |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat, when present, membranous. | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat membranous. | ||||||||
Stems | usually not branching but sometimes twisted, 1–2(–5) dm. |
usually branching, straight, 3–6 dm; bearing bulblets or not. |
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Leaves | blade linear-attenuate; basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade channeled, glaucous. |
basal withering, 1–2 dm; blade linear-attenuate. |
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Inflorescences | subumbellate, 1–6-flowered; bracts 2–4 cm, bases dilated. |
mono-chasiate, 1–4-flowered; bracts 1–2 cm. |
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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, broadly campanulate; sepals usually with brownish blotch near base, lanceolate, 3 cm, apex acuminate; petals white to lavender, sometimes with brownish blotch distal to gland, obovate-cuneate, rounded distally, 2–3 cm, usually with yellow hairs near gland, apex acute to acuminate; glands many, rounded, not depressed, short, thick, distally knobbed, sometimes with yellowish or purplish hairs, otherwise glabrous; filaments 7–8 mm; anthers white, oblong, 5–7 mm, apex acute. |
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Capsules | erect, longitudinally striped, lanceoloid-linear, angled, 4–6 cm, apex acuminate. |
erect, linear, angled in cross section, ca. 5 cm. |
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Seeds | flat. |
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2n | =16. |
= 14. |
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Calochortus kennedyi |
Calochortus palmeri |
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (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) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 14: 266. (1879) | ||||||||
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