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Webber's ivesia, wire ivesia, wire mousetail

Coconino ivesia, manyleaf mousetail, red comarella

Habit Plants ± green, ± rosetted; taproot slender to ± stout, not fleshy. Plants green.
Stems

decumbent to ascending, 0.5–1.5(–1.8) dm.

ascending to erect, 2–6 dm.

Basal leaves

loosely ± cylindric, 3–7(–10) cm; sheathing base ± strigose abaxially;

petiole 0.5–5(–6) cm, hairs 2–4 mm;

leaflets 4–8(–10) per side, (0.5–)3–8(–10) mm, loosely long-strigose or -villous and short-hirsute, ± glandular, lobes 2–5(–12), linear to lanceolate, apex not setose.

6–25(–30) cm; sheathing base minutely glandular abaxially;

petiole 0.5–8(–10) cm;

leaflets 12–30 per side, obovate to broadly cuneate, 5–12(–15) mm, incised 1/3–1/2 to base into 3–5 oblong to ovate teeth, sometimes entire, sparsely short-strigose to -villous, sometimes glabrate.

Cauline leaves

2, paired.

Inflorescences

5–15(–25)-flowered, 1.5–3(–6) cm diam.;

glomerules 1.

(5–)8–60-flowered, 2–12 cm diam.

Pedicels

(0.5–)1–8(–13) mm.

5–30(–35) mm.

Flowers

9–12 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets linear, 1.2–3 mm;

hypanthium cupulate, 1–2(–2.5) × 2.5–5 mm;

sepals 2.5–4.5(–5.5) mm, acute;

petals yellow, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–3(–4) mm;

stamens 5, filaments 1.8–2.5(–3) mm, anthers yellow, (0.8–)1–1.6 mm;

carpels 3–8, styles 1.8–2.2 mm.

9–12 mm diam.;

epicalyx bractlets narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 1–2 mm;

hypanthium interior brick- to blood-red or golden, 0.5–1.5 × 3–5 mm;

sepals 3–4.5 mm, base brick- to blood-red adaxially, apex acute to acuminate;

petals brick- to blood-red, linear to oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 2–3.5 mm;

stamens 5, filaments 1.3–2 mm, anthers maroon, oblong, 0.6–0.9 mm;

carpels 1–5, styles 2–3 mm.

Achenes

light brown, often mottled darker brown, 1.9–2.5 mm.

brown, 2–2.5 mm.

2n

= 28.

Ivesia webberi

Ivesia multifoliolata

Phenology Flowering late spring–early summer. Flowering summer.
Habitat Dry flats and slopes, in sagebrush communities, conifer woodlands Dry flats and slopes, on gravelly volcanic or sandstone soil, often along seasonal stream courses, in oak and conifer woodlands
Elevation (1300–)1500–1900 m ((4300–)4900–6200 ft) 1800–2400 m (5900–7900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV
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from FNA
AZ
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia webberi is known only from the eastern foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada and scattered ranges to the east in California and adjacent Nevada. It is among the more distinctive species in the genus and is only tentatively placed in sect. Ivesia. The leaflets are loosely incised into slender, sparsely villous segments, and the two cauline leaves are paired with dissected stipules. Previous reports of the stems and inflorescence branches being glandular-puberulent are due to a misinterpretation of the minute pustulose bases associated with the villous indumentum as being enlarged glands.

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

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia multifoliolata is found between the Grand Canyon and Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona. It is both the only species of the genus with red petals and the only one that overlaps the range of the red-petaled Potentilla sect. Rubrae.

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

Source FNA vol. 9, p. 236. FNA vol. 9, p. 244.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Ivesia Rosaceae > subfam. Rosoideae > tribe Potentilleae > Ivesia > sect. Comarella
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. 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. 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. 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
Synonyms Potentilla webberi Horkelia multifoliolata, Comarella multifoliolata, Potentilla multifoliolata
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 71. (1874) (Torrey) D. D. Keck: Lloydia 1: 125. (1939)
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