Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia rhypara |
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silver-hair ivesia, silverhair mousetail |
grimy ivesia, grimy mousetail |
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Habit | Plants grayish, ± matted. | |||||
Stems | ± prostrate, (0.1–)0.2–1.5(–2) dm. |
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Basal leaves | tightly cylindric, 2–10 cm; sheathing base densely hairy abaxially; petiole 0.5–4(–10) cm; lateral leaflets 4–10(–15) per side, overlapping at least distally, ± flabellate, 0.5–3(–4) mm, incised to base or nearly so into (0–)2–4(–9) elliptic to obovate or orbiculate lobes, apex usually not setose, surfaces densely hirsute, cryptically glandular; terminal leaflets indistinct. |
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Cauline leaves | (0–)1; blade vestigial. |
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Inflorescences | 5–60(–100)-flowered, congested, 0.5–5(–7) cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 1.5–4(–8) mm. |
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Flowers | 4–8 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, linear to elliptic or narrowly ovate, 0.8–1.6(–2.1) mm; hypanthium patelliform to shallowly cupulate, 1–1.5 × (1.5–)2–3(–3.5) mm; sepals 1.4–2.5(–2.8) mm, acute; petals white to pale yellowish, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1–1.5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.6–1.8 mm, anthers maroon or yellow with maroon margins, oblong, 0.3–0.6 mm; carpels 1–2(–4), styles 1–1.5 mm. |
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Achenes | brown, 1.2–1.6(–2) mm, smooth, prominently carunculate. |
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Ivesia argyrocoma |
Ivesia rhypara |
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Distribution |
CA; nw Mexico
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NV; OR
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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). Ivesia rhypara forms densely hairy mats or mounds on isolated edaphic sites in the northern Great Basin. Only one of the widely disjunct population clusters is recognized as a distinct variety; the others have general differences in gestalt, but no significant distinctions have been determined (B. Ertter 1989). Isozyme analysis likewise does not show significant differences (T. Kaye et al., unpubl., BLM and Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, 1991). Reproductive studies by D. Wiens (pers. comm.) show low seed set (ca. 5% in var. rhypara, somewhat higher in var. shellyi), possibly indicating a deleterious genetic load. (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. 228. | ||||
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 | |||||
Name authority | (Rydberg) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 284. (1908) | Ertter & Reveal: Madroño 24: 224, fig. 1. (1977) | ||||
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