Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus obispoensis |
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Umpqua mariposa-lily |
San Luis mariposa-lily |
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Habit | Plants usually bulbose; bulb coat fibrous-reticulate. | |
Stems | not branching, straight, often scapelike, 2–3 dm, glabrous or glaucous. |
slender, branching, straight, 3–6 dm. |
Leaves | basal solitary, clasping; blade narrowly lanceolate, hairy, adaxially hispid, abaxially glabrous, sometimes glaucous. Inflorescences 1–several-flowered; bracts 2, suboppo-site, narrowly lanceolate. |
basal withering, 2–3 dm; blade linear-lanceolate. |
Inflorescences | 2–6-flowered. |
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Flowers | erect; perianth open, campanulate; sepals lanceolate-acuminate, ca. 2 cm; petals white to cream, with dark purple-black, pentagonal to lunate blotch, broadly oblong to obovate, 3.5 cm, bearded, adaxial surface typically minutely papillose, margins erose; glands transversely oblong-lunate, slightly depressed, with 0.7–1.4 mm-wide band of short dendritic hairs distally, hairs surrounded by lime-green coloration and purple striations; anthers lanceolate, apex acuminate. |
erect; perianth opening flat, campanulate; sepals often reflexed, lanceolate, 1–3 cm, glabrous, apex long-tapered; petals yellow to deep orange, purple-brown at tip, oblong-ovate, 1–2 cm, conspicuously bearded, margins fringed or dentate, apex fringed with hairy tufts; glands round, slightly depressed, glabrous, surrounded and obscured by ring of slender, dense hairs united at base; filaments 7–8 mm; anthers oblong, apex acute. |
Capsules | nodding, 3–5.4 cm. |
erect, linear, 3-angled, 3–4 cm, apex acute. |
Seeds | 2.8–3.5 mm, with inflated bulbous crest and hollow lateral ridge. |
light yellow, translucent. |
2n | = 20. |
= 18. |
Calochortus umpquaensis |
Calochortus obispoensis |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–mid summer. | Flowering late spring–mid summer. |
Habitat | Grassland-forest ecotones in serpentine-derived soils | Dry stony hills, canyons, edge of chaparral, serpentine |
Elevation | 300–500 m (1000–1600 ft) | 100–500 m (300–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
OR
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CA |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Calochortus umpquaensis is known only from Watson and Ace Williams mountains on both sides of the Little River, Douglas County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Calochortus obispoensis is restricted to San Luis Obispo County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 26, p. 130. | FNA vol. 26, p. 141. |
Parent taxa | Liliaceae > Calochortus | Liliaceae > Calochortus |
Sibling taxa | ||
Name authority | Fredricks: Syst. Bot. 14: 12, figs. 1, 2, 3f–j, 4, 5. (1989) | Lemmon: Bot. Gaz. 11: 180. (1886) |
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