Collinsia antonina
Collinsia torreyi
San Antonio collinsia
Torrey's blue-eyed Mary, Torrey's collinsia
erect.
erect.
blades oblong, margins crenate.
blades linear, length usually 6+ times width, margins entire.
± finely scaly, usually sparsely, finely glandular;
nodes 1–3-flowered;
flowers not crowded;
distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.
densely glandular;
nodes (1–)3–6-flowered;
flowers not crowded;
distalmost bracts linear, 0–2 mm.
ascending to spreading, proximalmost longer than calyx, distalmost equal to calyx, visible.
ascending to spreading, sometimes reflexed, pendent and/or sigmoid in fruit, usually longer than calyx, visible.
calyx lobes lanceolate, slightly surpassing capsule, apex blunt to rounded, inner face white-hairy;
corolla purple, lobes purple, rarely white, throat white with red-purple spots at base of banner, 4.5–8 mm, glabrous;
banner length 1 times wings, lobe base without folds;
stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, adaxials sparsely hairy, basal spur 0.
calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate, equal to capsule, apex subacute to rounded;
corolla blue-violet to purple, banner white, cream, or pale lilac, 6–9 mm, sparsely glandular;
banner length 0.9–1 times wings, lobe base with folds bulging 0.5 mm away from throat opening at base of each lobe, wings equal to keel;
stamens: abaxial filaments glabrous, adaxials glabrous or hairy at base, basal spur 0.
6–8, oblong, 1.5–2 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.
2, ovate to oblong, sometimes compressed, 2–3 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.
= 14.
= 42.
Collinsia antonina
Collinsia torreyi
Collinsia antonina is geographically narrowly endemic, known only from Monterey County. It occurs on scree derived from whitish siliceous shale of the Monterey Formation at the edge of woodlands near the shade of Quercus john-tuckeri. It is morphologically similar to C. parryi, which lacks the coarse white hairs on the inner face of the sepals. DNA studies (B. G. Baldwin et al. 2011) show a more distant relationship between C. antonina and C. parryi than suspected from morphology alone.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Collinsia torreyi occurs only in the Sierra Nevada. In flower, it is superficially similar to C. linearis, with linear leaves and similarly colored and shaped flowers. In fruit, differences in the pedicels are distinct: S-shaped in C. torreyi and straight in C. linearis. Their ranges do not overlap.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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