Ivesia arizonica |
Ivesia callida |
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purpusia, rock whitefeather |
Tahquitz ivesia, Tahquitz mousetail |
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Habit | Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | Plants green, ± tufted to matted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted. | ||||
Stems | pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm. |
usually pendent or prostrate to ascending, sometimes nearly erect, 0.2–1.5 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. |
± loosely cylindric to weakly planar, 1–7 cm; sheathing base sparsely strigose abaxially; petiole 0.3–3 cm; lateral leaflets (1–)5–8 per side, slightly overlapping, elliptic to flabellate, 2–6(–7) mm, incised nearly to base into (0–)2–4 oblanceolate to elliptic lobes, apex sometimes ± setose, surfaces loosely long-strigose, sparsely glandular; terminal leaflets indistinct. |
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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. |
1–10(–15)-flowered, open, (0.5–)2–5 cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 5–30 mm. |
5–15 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. |
7–10 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–3 mm; hypanthium patelliform, 0.5–1 × 2–3 mm; sepals 2–3.5 mm, acute; petals white, obovate, 2–3.5 mm; stamens 20, filaments 1.5–3 mm, anthers maroon, subrotund, 0.2–0.3 mm; carpels 4–8, styles 1.5–1.8 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 mm, smooth to lightly rugose, ± carunculate. |
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Ivesia arizonica |
Ivesia callida |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Crevices of dry, rocky outcrops of granite, sometimes more or less vertical protected cliffs, in montane conifer woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 2400–2500 m (7900–8200 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT |
CA |
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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.) |
Of conservation concern. Ivesia callida occurs in the Tahquitz Peak area of the San Jacinto Wilderness Area, San Jacinto Mountains, Riverside County, where two populations are known (K. Berg 1983). Plants form tight mats in horizontal crevices and loose pendent clumps on vertical rock faces. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | ||||
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Synonyms | Purpusia arizonica | Potentilla callida | ||||
Name authority | (Eastwood ex J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | (H. M. Hall) Rydberg: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl. 22: 286. (1908) | ||||
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