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Jaeger's halimolobos, Mojave fissurewort, Mojave halimolobos

Habit Perennials.
Stems

erect to ascending, often paniculately branched distally, 1.5–7.5 dm, trichomes sessile or subsessile.

Basal leaves

absent on older plants.

Cauline leaves

petiolate or (distal) sessile;

petiole 0.3–2 cm;

blade oblanceolate or lanceolate to obovate, (1.5–)3–8(–11.5) cm × (7–)15–35(–46) mm (smaller distally), base cuneate, margins coarsely dentate to shallowly sinuate, surfaces with stalked to subsessile trichomes.

Racemes

slightly to considerably elongated in fruit.

Flowers

sepals slightly spreading, 2–4 × 0.8–1.5 mm;

petals (slightly spreading), spatulate or oblanceolate, (3.5–)4.5–6 × 1–1.5 mm, claw obscurely differentiated from blade, to 1.5 mm;

filaments spreading, 3.5–6 mm, equal to or longer than petals;

anthers 0.7–1 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate or slightly ascending, (3–)4–9(–12) mm.

Fruits

divaricate or slightly ascending, curved or straight, torulose, linear, terete, (1–)1.5–2.6 cm × 0.6–0.9 mm;

ovules 28–38 per ovary;

style (1–)1.5–2.2 mm.

Seeds

uniseriate, 0.9–1.2 × 0.5–0.6 mm.

Halimolobos jaegeri

Phenology Flowering early Jun-late Aug.
Habitat Limestone cliffs, canyon walls, granitic slopes, rocky outcrops, crevices of volcanic cliffs
Elevation 1300-2400 m (4300-7900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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Discussion

Halimolobos jaegeri is known in California from Inyo and San Bernardino counties and in Nevada from Esmeralda and Nye counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 558.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Halimolobeae > Halimolobos
Sibling taxa
H. diffusa, H. pubens
Synonyms Sisymbrium diffusum var. jaegeri, H. diffusa var. jaegeri
Name authority (Munz) Rollins: Harvard Pap. Bot. 1: 46. (1993)
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