Draba murrayi |
Draba paucifructa |
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kathul mountain Draba |
Charleston Mountain Draba |
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Habit | Perennials; (cespitose); caudex often branched (covered with persistent leaves or leaf remains, branches sometimes terminating in sterile rosettes); not scapose. | Perennials; caudex simple or branched (not fleshy, usually with some persistent leaf remains); sometimes scapose. |
Stems | unbranched, (0.4–)0.9–2.7(–3.5) dm, pubescent proximally, glabrous distally, trichomes simple, 0.2–1 mm, and often smaller, fewer short-stalked, 2–4-rayed ones. |
unbranched, (0.1–)0.3–0.9 dm, glabrous throughout or sparsely pubescent proximally, trichomes simple and 2–6-rayed, 0.1–0.5 mm. |
Basal leaves | rosulate; petiolate; petiole (0–0.7 cm), margin ciliate; blade oblanceolate to obovate, (0.3–)0.6–2.1(–2.8) cm × (1.5–)2.5–5(–9) mm, margins entire or sparsely denticulate, (ciliate, trichomes simple, 0.2–1.1 mm), surfaces pubescent with stalked, cruciform, and 2- or 3-rayed trichomes, (rays sometimes spurred), 0.1–0.6 mm, sometimes mostly simple trichomes adaxially. |
rosulate; petiolate; petiole (0–0.5 cm), ciliate throughout; blade oblanceolate to obovate, 0.4–1.7(–2.3) cm × 1.6–4(–6) mm, margins usually entire, rarely denticulate, (sparsely ciliate, trichomes simple, 0.3–0.8 mm), surfaces pubescent, abaxially with stalked, (2–)4(–6)-rayed trichomes, (0.05–)0.1–0.6 mm, adaxially with simple and fewer, stalked, 2–4-rayed ones. |
Cauline leaves | 1–6; sessile; blade ovate or oblong to lanceolate, margins usually entire, rarely sparsely denticulate, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
0 or 1; sessile; blade ovate to lanceolate, margins entire, surfaces pubescent as basal. |
Racemes | 7–25-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis not flexuous, glabrous. |
(2–)4–9(–12)-flowered, ebracteate, elongated in fruit; rachis slightly flexuous, glabrous. |
Flowers | sepals ovate, 1.5–2.2 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2-rayed); petals white, obovate, 4–6 × 1.5–2.5 mm; anthers ovate, 0.4–0.5 mm. |
sepals ovate, 1.2–1.7 mm, pubescent, (trichomes simple and short-stalked, 2- or 3-rayed); petals yellowish (quickly fading white), spatulate, 1.8–2.2 × 0.6–1 mm; anthers ovate, 0.25–0.3 mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | divaricate-ascending, usually straight, rarely curved, (4–)7–18 mm, glabrous. |
divaricate-ascending, straight, 2–5(–8) mm, glabrous. |
Fruits | linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, plane, flattened, 5–13 × 1.5–2 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 20–30 per ovary; style 0.6–1.5 mm. |
elliptic to linear lanceolate, plane, flattened, 5–10(–12) × 1.7–2(–2.5) mm; valves glabrous; ovules 20–30 per ovary; style 0.08–0.2 mm. |
Seeds | oblong, 0.9–1.2 × ca. 0.5 mm. |
oblong, 0.9–1.2 × 0.5–0.8 mm. |
2n | = 48. |
= 40. |
Draba murrayi |
Draba paucifructa |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Rock outcrops and talus, open forests, dry slopes, alluvial gravels | Moist, shaded slopes among limestone and dolomite rocks |
Elevation | 150-900 m (500-3000 ft) | 2600-3500 m (8500-11500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; YT |
NV |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Draba paucifructa is known from the Charleston Mountains in Clark County. M. D. Windham (2004) suggested that it is an allopolyploid resulting from hybridization between D. albertina and D. lonchocarpa, and he discussed the morphological features that distinguish this species from its putative parents. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 321. | FNA vol. 7, p. 327. |
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Name authority | G. A. Mulligan: Canad. J. Bot. 57: 1874. (1979) | Clokey & C. L. Hitchcock: Madroño 5: 127. (1939) |
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