Ivesia arizonica var. saxosa |
Ivesia arizonica |
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rock purpusia, rock whitefeather |
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, (0.5–)2–14 cm diam. |
(1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam. |
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Pedicels | 5–30 mm. |
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Flowers | hypanthium turbinate, ± 2 times as deep as wide; petals white; anthers 1–1.5 mm. |
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 arizonica var. saxosa |
Ivesia arizonica |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | |||||
Habitat | Dry, rocky outcrops of mainly volcanic origin, usually in crevices of more or less vertical protected cliffs or boulders, in sagebrush communities, pinyon-juniper woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 1500–2100 m (4900–6900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
NV |
AZ; CA; NV; UT |
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Variety saxosa is known from scattered locations in the North and South Pahroc ranges, Lincoln County, and on Pahute Mesa, Nye County, Nevada. Reports of this variety in the Sheep Range of Clark County, Nevada (N. H. Holmgren 1997b; T. L. Ackerman et al. 2003), are probably based on var. arizonica. (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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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 226. | FNA vol. 9, p. 224. | ||||
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Synonyms | Purpusia saxosa, Potentilla osterhoutii var. saxosa | Purpusia arizonica | ||||
Name authority | (Brandegee) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | (Eastwood ex J. T. Howell) Ertter: Syst. Bot. 14: 233. (1989) | ||||
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