Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia arizonica |
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silver-hair ivesia, silverhair mousetail |
purpusia, rock whitefeather |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | |||||
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm. |
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Basal leaves | planar, 2–15(–20) cm; sheathing base usually not strigose abaxially; petiole 3–10 cm; lateral leaflets (2–)3–4(–5) per side, separate, broadly ovate or obovate to orbiculate, (2–)5–15(–18) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into (3–)7–11 ± ovate teeth, apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose, ± glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. |
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Cauline leaves | 1–3; blade well developed. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 5–30 mm. |
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Flowers | 6–12 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0(–3), lanceolate, 0.9–1.8 mm; hypanthium turbinate or campanulate, 1.5–3(–5) × 1–3(–4) mm; sepals 2–4(–5) mm, acute; petals yellow or white, oblanceolate to elliptic or obovate, (1.6–)2–4 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.8–1.3 mm, anthers ± yellow, oblong to narrowly ovate, 0.6–1.5 mm; carpels (2–)6–10(–13), atop a stipelike torus, styles 0.9–1.8 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish white to light tan, 1.2–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
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Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia arizonica |
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Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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AZ; CA; NV; UT |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). Plants from the central Sierra San Pedro Mártir in northern Baja California belong to var. moranii Ertter & Reveal, which may be distinguished by its compact stature (to 0.5 dm), densely villous basal stipules 2–4 mm, decumbent stems 2–7 cm that are stipitate-glandular under the villous indumentum, and solitary, loosely congested cyme. The petals are oblanceolate to narrowly obovate and 2.5–3.5 mm. The grayish, faintly mottled achenes are 1.3–2 mm. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Because the epithet saxosa was retained for Potentilla saxosa upon transfer to Ivesia, a different epithet (arizonica) was needed when Purpusia was likewise transferred in the same publication (B. Ertter 1989). The correct name for this species in Potentilla is P. osterhoutii (A. Nelson) J. T. Howell, due to the existence of P. arizonica. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 242. | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Unguiculatae | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae | ||||
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Synonyms | Horkelia argyrocoma, Potentilla argyrocoma | Purpusia arizonica | ||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 284. (1908) | (Eastwood ex J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | ||||
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