Lupinus antoninus |
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Anthony Peak lupine |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, 2–5 dm, gray- to silvery-hairy. |
Stems | decumbent-erect, branched. |
Leaves | cauline; stipules not leaflike, green to silvery, 10–12 mm; petiole 1–2 cm; leaflets 6 or 7, blades 15–25 × 3–7 mm, adaxial surface pubescent. |
Racemes | open, 4–20 cm; flowers spirally arranged. |
Peduncles | 1–4 cm; bracts semideciduous, 7–8 mm. |
Pedicels | 3–4 mm. |
Flowers | 12–14 mm; calyx bulge or spur 0–1 mm, abaxial lobe 3-toothed, 6–8 mm, adaxial lobe 2-toothed, 6–8 mm; corolla white, banner patch turning tawny, banner glabrous abaxially, keel upcurved, glabrous, banner ovate, wings wide, covering keel tip. |
Legumes | 2.5–3.5 cm, silky. |
Cotyledons | deciduous, petiolate. |
Seeds | 4 or 5, mottled brown, 7–11 mm. |
Lupinus antoninus |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Open fir forests. |
Elevation | ca. 2000 m. (ca. 6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA |
Discussion | Lupinus antoninus is known only from the type locality on the southwestern slope of Anthony Peak in Mendocino County. The habit and pubescence resemble those of L. adsurgens, but the larger white flowers, the large seeds, and thick stems differentiate it morphologically. According to M. Conrad (1980), it also has different alkaloids. This taxon has not been seen since 1995 and may be extirpated. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | L. adsurgens var. lilacinus |
Name authority | Eastwood: Leafl. W. Bot. 3: 202. (1943) |
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