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rock purpusia, rock whitefeather

purpusia, rock whitefeather

Habit Plants green, ± tufted, often forming hanging clumps, sometimes rosetted.
Stems

pendent or prostrate to ascending, (0.2–)0.5–1.6(–3) dm.

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.

Cauline leaves

1–3;

blade well developed.

Inflorescences

(1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, (0.5–)2–14 cm diam.

(1–)5–30(–150)-flowered, open, 0.5–14 cm diam.

Pedicels

5–30 mm.

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.

Achenes

greenish white to light tan, 1.2–2 mm, faintly rugose, ± carunculate.

Ivesia arizonica var. saxosa

Ivesia arizonica

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
from FNA
NV
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from FNA
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.)

Key
1. Petals yellow; hypanthia campanulate.
var. arizonica
1. Petals white; hypanthia turbinate.
var. saxosa
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 226. FNA vol. 9, p. 224.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae > Ivesia arizonica Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae
Sibling taxa
I. arizonica var. arizonica
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. jaegeri, I. kingii, I. longibracteata, I. lycopodioides, I. muirii, I. multifoliolata, I. paniculata, I. patellifera, I. pickeringii, I. pityocharis, I. pygmaea, I. rhypara, I. sabulosa, I. santolinoides, I. saxosa, I. sericoleuca, I. setosa, I. shockleyi, I. tweedyi, I. unguiculata, I. utahensis, I. webberi
Subordinate taxa
I. arizonica var. arizonica, I. arizonica var. saxosa
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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