Draba heilii |
Draba incrassata |
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Sweetwater Draba, Sweetwater Mountains Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (densely cespitose); caudex few-branched (compact, with persistent, thickened leaves); not scapose. | Perennials; (cespitose, loosely matted); caudex branched (with persistent leaf bases, branches often creeping, sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); scapose. |
Stems | unbranched or branched distally, 0.3–0.7 dm, glabrous throughout or, rarely, pilose, trichomes simple and stalked, 2-rayed, 0.2–0.5 mm. |
unbranched, 0.2–0.8 dm, glabrous throughout. |
Basal leaves | (persistent, imbricate); rosulate; undifferentiated into blade and petiole (becoming indurate at base); blade linear-lanceolate, 0.5–0.8 cm × 1–1.5(–2) mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous or, rarely, pilose with simple and stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, (margins ciliate with simple and, rarely, 2-rayed setiform trichomes, 0.5–1.3 mm, midvein prominent). |
rosulate; subsessile; petiole ciliate; blade (thick and somewhat fleshy), obovate to spatulate or oblanceolate, 0.3–1 cm × 1.5–4.5 mm, margins entire, (sometimes sparsely ciliate), surfaces glabrous or pubescent proximal to apex, with simple and fewer, short-stalked, 2-rayed trichomes, 0.2–0.7 mm. |
Cauline leaves | 6–8; sessile; blade linear-oblong, 0.5–0.8 cm × 1–2 mm (widest about base), margins entire, (ciliate). |
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Racemes | 10–26-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, usually glabrous, rarely pubescent, (trichomes non-crisped, simple and 2-rayed). |
8–22-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.7–2.7 mm, usually glabrous, rarely pilose, (trichomes simple); petals yellow, oblong-oblanceolate, 4–6 × 1.5–2 mm; anthers oblong, 0.5–0.6 mm. |
sepals oblong, 1.7–3 mm, glabrous or pubescent, (trichomes subapical, simple or 2-rayed); petals bright yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 3–5 × 1.7–2.5 mm; anthers oblong, 0.4–0.6 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | ascending, straight, 3–5(–7) mm, usually glabrous, rarely pilose, (trichomes simple and 2-rayed, stalked). |
horizontal to divaricate-ascending (distinctly decurrent basally), curved upward, 3–7(–10) mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | narrowly lanceolate, twisted 1/2 turn or plane, flattened, 7–10 × 1.3–1.6 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 16–20 per ovary; style 0.7–1.3 mm. |
ovate to ovate-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, plane, flattened, 3–7(–10) × 2.2–4.5 mm; valves usually glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent, trichomes simple, 0.03–0.1 mm; ovules 8–12 per ovary; style 0.2–0.8 mm. |
Seeds | ovoid, 1 × 0.6 mm. |
oblong, 1.5–1.8 × 0.8–1.1 mm. |
2n | = 24. |
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Draba heilii |
Draba incrassata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Alpine tundra | Rocky and gravelly slopes, alpine fellfields |
Elevation | ca. 3700 m (ca. 12100 ft) | 2500-3500 m (8200-11500 ft) |
Distribution |
NM |
CA |
Discussion | Draba heilii is restricted to Mora and Rio Arriba counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Although originally treated as a variety of Draba lemmonii, D. incrassata is quite distinct both morphologically (R. A. Price and R. C. Rollins 1991) and chromosomally (M. D. Windham, unpubl.). The species is known from the Sweetwater Mountains in Mono County. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 311. | FNA vol. 7, p. 313. |
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Synonyms | D. lemmonii var. incrassata | |
Name authority | Al-Shehbaz: Harvard Pap. Bot. 14: 83, fig. 1. (2009) | (Rollins) Rollins & R. A. Price: Harvard Pap. Bot. 1(3): 73. (1991) |
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