Canbya candida |
Canbya |
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pygmy poppy, white pygmy-poppy |
canbya, pygmy-poppy |
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Habit | Plants 1-3 cm. | Herbs, annual, semiacaulescent, very small, glabrous, from taproots; sap clear. |
Stems | branching at and just above ground level, leafy, branches short. |
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Leaves | 5-9 mm. |
alternate, congested in tufts, sessile; blade unlobed, linear-oblong, fleshy, margins entire. |
Inflorescences | peduncle 1-2 cm. |
axillary, 1-flowered, much exceeding leaves; peduncle slender. |
Flowers | sepals 2 mm; petals marcescent, 5-7, white, elliptic, 3-4 mm; stamens 6-9; filaments shorter than anthers. |
sepals 3, distinct; petals 5-7; stamens 6-15; pistil 3-4-carpellate; ovary ovoid, 1-locular; style absent; stigmas 3(-4), linear, radiate-recurved, appressed or adherent to ovary. |
Capsules | 1.5-2.5 mm. |
erect, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, 3(-4)-valved, dehiscing from apex. |
Seeds | many, brown, oblong-obovoid to ellipsoid, slightly arcuate, 0.6-0.8 mm, glossy, aril absent. |
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x | = 8. |
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2n | = 16. |
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Canbya candida |
Canbya |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jun. | |
Habitat | Dry, sandy ground | |
Elevation | 600-1200 m (2000-3900 ft) | |
Distribution |
CA
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w United States |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Canbya candida has been found only in the western Mojave Desert. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Species 2 (2 in the flora). These diminutive (but handsome) desert endemics are among the smallest plants in the family. Little is known about their life histories, reproduction, ecological interactions, or evolutionary histories, and they merit more field and laboratory study. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Key | ||
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
Parent taxa | Papaveraceae > Canbya | Papaveraceae |
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Name authority | Parry ex A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 51, plate 1. (1876) | Parry ex A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 12: 51, plate 1. (1876) |
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