Marina calycosa |
|
---|---|
San Pedro false prairie-clover |
|
Habit | Herbs, decumbent, 0.5–2 dm. |
Stems | branched or simple, eglandular or nearly so, strigulose. |
Leaves | 1–3 cm; leaflets (9 or)11–25, blades obovate to oblong-obovate, 1.5–7 mm, surfaces pubescent, not gland-dotted abaxially. |
Racemes | moderately densely flowered; axis (1–)1.5–6.5 cm; bracts 2.5–4 mm. |
Peduncles | 0.3–3 cm. |
Pedicels | 0.3–0.6 mm. |
Flowers | nodding; calyx 5.2–7 mm, hirtellous, tube 1.8–2.5 mm, rib intervals each with ± 5 glands, lobes lanceolate-elliptic, slightly unequal; corolla bicolored; banner whitish or pinkish tan, blue or purplish near margin, deltate-cordate to reniform, 3.7–5 mm; epistemonous petals whitish, blue or purplish on margins; wings obliquely ovate, 3.3–4.2 × 2.1–2.8 mm; keel broadly ovate or obovate, 4.3–5.8 × 3–3.7 mm; stamens 7–8 mm; filaments distinct to 2.5–3 mm; anthers 0.7–1 mm. |
Seeds | 2 mm. |
Loments | obliquely obovoid, 2.6–3 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally. |
Marina calycosa |
|
Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer (late summer–fall). |
Habitat | Rocky or sandy hillsides in oak woodlands, dry grassland. |
Elevation | 1200–2500 m. (3900–8200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora)
|
Discussion | Marina calycosa is similar in habit and overall appearance to Dalea neomexicana, which it overlaps in range and with which it has, sometimes, been confused. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | Dalea calycosa |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 83. (1977) |
Web links |