Ivesia arizonica |
Ivesia baileyi |
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purpusia, rock whitefeather |
Bailey's ivesia, Owyhee ivesia |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | ||||||||
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm. |
pendent or prostrate to ascending, 0.5–2(–2.5) 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. |
planar, 3–12(–18) cm; sheathing base not or sparsely strigose abaxially; petiole 1–8 cm; lateral leaflets 2–6(–10) per side, separate to slightly overlapping distally, ovate or obovate to flabellate, 4–15(–25) mm, incised 1/4–3/4 to base into 3–11(–15) ovate to oblanceolate teeth or lobes, apex not setose, surfaces ± sparsely short-pilose or hirsute, ± glandular; terminal leaflets ± distinct. |
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Cauline leaves | 1–3; blade well developed. |
1–2; blade reduced. |
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Inflorescences | (1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam. |
(1–)5–40-flowered, open, (1–)1.5–8(–10) cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 5–30 mm. |
2–15(–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. |
4–10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 0.8–2.5 mm; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5–2 × 2–4 mm; sepals (1.2–)1.5–4 mm, acute; petals white or pale yellow, oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate, 1.5–2.5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.5–1.1 mm, anthers yellow, sometimes with reddish margins, oblong, 0.4–0.7 mm; carpels (1–)3–8, styles 0.9–1.8 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish white to light tan, 1.2–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate. |
greenish white to light tan, 1.5–2 mm, smooth or rugose, ± carunculate. |
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Ivesia arizonica |
Ivesia baileyi |
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Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT |
CA; ID; NV; OR
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Discussion | 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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The two varieties accepted here were not recognized by D. D. Keck (1938), who instead treated Ivesia setosa as a variety of I. baileyi. Field investigations confirm that the three entities are reasonably distinct morphologically, with intergradation where their otherwise distinct ranges overlap in central Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | FNA vol. 9, p. 226. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Purpusia arizonica | Potentilla baileyi | ||||||||
Name authority | (Eastwood ex J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 90. (1871) | ||||||||
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