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Ivesia lycopodioides

Ivesia paniculata

club-moss ivesia, clubmoss mousetail

Ash Creek ivesia, Ash Creek mousetail
Habit Plants green, usually rosetted, sometimes ± tufted; taproot fusiform, fleshy. Plants grayish, ± matted.
Stems

decumbent to erect, 0.3–3 dm.

± prostrate, 0.4–1.5(–2) dm.
Basal leaves

tightly to loosely cylindric, 1–15 cm; sheathing base glabrous abaxially;

petiole 0.5–4 cm, hairs 0.2–1 mm;

leaflets 10–35 per side, 1–8 mm, glabrous or short-hirsute, minutely glandular, lobes (2–)4–8(–10), linear to obovate or ± orbiculate, apex sometimes setose.

tightly cylindric, (1.5–)2–5(–7) cm; sheathing base densely hairy abaxially;

petiole 0.5–4 cm;

lateral leaflets (5–)8–15 per side, overlapping at least distally, ± flabellate, 0.5–2 mm, incised to base or nearly so into (0–)3–8(–15) elliptic to narrowly obovate lobes, apex not or obscurely setose, surfaces densely hirsute, cryptically glandular;

terminal leaflets indistinct.
Cauline leaves

0–2(–3), not paired.

(0–)1;

blade reduced.
Inflorescences

3–20(–25)-flowered, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.5) cm diam.;

glomerules usually 1.

20–200-flowered, congested, (1–)1.5–6(–10) cm diam.
Pedicels

(0.5–)1–7(–11) mm.

1.5–6 mm.
Flowers

6–12 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets oblong to oval, 0.8–2.5(–3) mm;

hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 1–2 × 2.5–5 mm;

sepals (1.8–)2–4(–4.5) mm, obtuse to acute;

petals golden yellow, obovate, 2–5 mm;

stamens 5, filaments 0.8–2 mm, anthers yellow, 0.6–0.8 mm;

carpels (5–)8–15(–18), styles 1–3 mm.

4–6 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets 5, lanceolate to elliptic, 0.6–1.5(–2) mm;

hypanthium shallowly cupulate, 1 × 2–3 mm;

sepals (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) mm, acute;

petals white to pale yellowish, linear, 1 mm;

stamens 5, filaments 0.3–1 mm, anthers yellow with maroon margins, ovate, 0.3–0.5 mm;

carpels 1–2(–3), styles 0.7–1.8 mm.
Achenes

greenish tan to light brown, 1.2–1.5 mm.

brown, 0.8–1.5 mm, smooth, prominently carunculate.

Ivesia lycopodioides

Ivesia paniculata
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry shallow volcanic ash and cinders atop volcanic bedrock, open sagebrush communities, adjacent conifer woodlands
Elevation 1500–1800 m (4900–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

The three varieties of Ivesia lycopodioides are for the most part readily distinguished, though intergradation is known. The high-elevation var. lycopodioides extends farthest north; var. scandularis is the only variety in the White Mountains. Variety megalopetala is found mostly at somewhat lower (subalpine) elevations and generally has a more southern range.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia paniculata is known only from the Ash Valley area of Lassen County. The distinctions between I. paniculata and I. rhypara are perhaps on the same scale as variation among disjunct population clusters of I. rhypara, but no taxonomic adjustments are proposed at this time.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaflets short-hirsute, apical setae (0–)0.5–1(–2) mm; White Mountains and c Sierra Nevada.
var. scandularis
1. Leaflets glabrous or sparsely short-hirsute, apical setae 0–0.5 mm; Sierra Nevada and Sweetwater Mountains
→ 2
2. Leaflet lobes ± orbiculate, ± 1 mm; petals 2–3 × 1 mm.
var. lycopodioides
2. Leaflet lobes linear to oblanceolate, 2–8 mm; petals 3–5 × 2–4 mm.
var. megalopetala
Source FNA vol. 9, p. 232. FNA vol. 9, p. 229.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae
Sibling taxa
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. arizonica, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. jaegeri, I. kingii, I. longibracteata, 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
I. aperta, I. argyrocoma, I. arizonica, I. baileyi, I. callida, I. campestris, I. cryptocaulis, I. gordonii, I. jaegeri, I. kingii, I. longibracteata, I. lycopodioides, I. muirii, I. multifoliolata, 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. lycopodioides var. lycopodioides, I. lycopodioides var. megalopetala, I. lycopodioides var. scandularis
Synonyms Potentilla lycopodioides
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 530. (1865) T. W. Nelson & J. P. Nelson: Brittonia 33: 165, fig. 1. (1981)
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