Ivesia lycopodioides |
Ivesia rhypara |
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club-moss ivesia, clubmoss mousetail |
grimy ivesia, grimy mousetail |
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Habit | Plants green, usually rosetted, sometimes ± tufted; taproot fusiform, fleshy. | Plants grayish, ± matted. | ||||||||||||
Stems | decumbent to erect, 0.3–3 dm. |
± prostrate, (0.1–)0.2–1.5(–2) dm. |
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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, 2–10 cm; sheathing base densely hairy abaxially; petiole 0.5–4(–10) cm; lateral leaflets 4–10(–15) per side, overlapping at least distally, ± flabellate, 0.5–3(–4) mm, incised to base or nearly so into (0–)2–4(–9) elliptic to obovate or orbiculate lobes, apex usually not setose, surfaces densely hirsute, cryptically glandular; terminal leaflets indistinct. |
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Cauline leaves | 0–2(–3), not paired. |
(0–)1; blade vestigial. |
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Inflorescences | 3–20(–25)-flowered, (0.5–)1–2.5(–3.5) cm diam.; glomerules usually 1. |
5–60(–100)-flowered, congested, 0.5–5(–7) cm diam. |
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Pedicels | (0.5–)1–7(–11) mm. |
1.5–4(–8) mm. |
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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. |
4–8 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, linear to elliptic or narrowly ovate, 0.8–1.6(–2.1) mm; hypanthium patelliform to shallowly cupulate, 1–1.5 × (1.5–)2–3(–3.5) mm; sepals 1.4–2.5(–2.8) mm, acute; petals white to pale yellowish, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1–1.5 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.6–1.8 mm, anthers maroon or yellow with maroon margins, oblong, 0.3–0.6 mm; carpels 1–2(–4), styles 1–1.5 mm. |
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Achenes | greenish tan to light brown, 1.2–1.5 mm. |
brown, 1.2–1.6(–2) mm, smooth, prominently carunculate. |
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Ivesia lycopodioides |
Ivesia rhypara |
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Distribution |
CA; NV
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NV; OR
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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.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). Ivesia rhypara forms densely hairy mats or mounds on isolated edaphic sites in the northern Great Basin. Only one of the widely disjunct population clusters is recognized as a distinct variety; the others have general differences in gestalt, but no significant distinctions have been determined (B. Ertter 1989). Isozyme analysis likewise does not show significant differences (T. Kaye et al., unpubl., BLM and Oregon Dept. of Agriculture, 1991). Reproductive studies by D. Wiens (pers. comm.) show low seed set (ca. 5% in var. rhypara, somewhat higher in var. shellyi), possibly indicating a deleterious genetic load. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 232. | FNA vol. 9, p. 228. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia | Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Setosae | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Potentilla lycopodioides | |||||||||||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 6: 530. (1865) | Ertter & Reveal: Madroño 24: 224, fig. 1. (1977) | ||||||||||||
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