Collinsia greenei
Collinsia antonina
Greene's blue-eyed Mary, Greene's collinsia
San Antonio collinsia
erect to ascending.
erect.
blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate or oblanceolate, margins entire or serrate.
blades oblong, margins crenate.
glandular;
nodes 1–5-flowered;
flowers crowded or not;
distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.
± finely scaly, usually sparsely, finely glandular;
nodes 1–3-flowered;
flowers not crowded;
distalmost bracts linear, 2–3 mm.
ascending to spreading, proximalmost sometimes longer than calyx, distalmost equal to or shorter than calyx, visible or not.
ascending to spreading, proximalmost longer than calyx, distalmost equal to calyx, visible.
calyx lobes lanceolate to ovate, surpassing capsule, apex subacute to rounded;
corolla ± uniformly dark purple, rarely pale pinkish purple, 10–15 mm, sparsely glandular;
banner length 0.5 times wings, base with 2-crested, crescent-shaped folds extending 1–1.5 mm from throat opening;
stamens: filaments glabrous, adaxials sometimes hairy, basal spur 0.
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.
2–4, oval, 2–3 mm, margins thin, not inrolled.
6–8, oblong, 1.5–2 mm, margins thickened, inrolled.
= 14.
= 14.
Collinsia greenei
Collinsia antonina
Collinsia greenei occurs on ophiolites, most frequently on soil derived from serpentinite and similarly altered ultramafic rock. Within its range, only C. rattanii occurs on these substrates; C. latifolia, C. parviflora, and C. wrightii are not on highly mafic soil.
The dark, nearly uniformly purple corollas of Collinsia greenei are distinctive, and the crescent-shaped flap of tissue on the adaxial lobes is unique. Other taxa have folds that bulge outward but are neither doubly crested nor crescent-shaped.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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.)
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