Marina calycosa |
Marina parryi |
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San Pedro false prairie-clover |
Parry dalea, Parry's false prairie-clover |
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Habit | Herbs, decumbent, 0.5–2 dm. | Herbs (becoming suffrutescent), erect, 1.5–7 dm. |
Stems | branched or simple, eglandular or nearly so, strigulose. |
usually branched, densely glandular-verruculose, 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. |
1.4–4.5(–6) cm; leaflets (9 or)11–23(–29), blades orbiculate-obcordate to oblong-ovate, 0.5–5(–7) mm, surfaces pubescent, gland-dotted abaxially. |
Racemes | moderately densely flowered; axis (1–)1.5–6.5 cm; bracts 2.5–4 mm. |
sparsely flowered distally; axis 2–10 cm; bracts 1.5–3(–5.5) mm. |
Peduncles | 0.3–3 cm. |
(0.5–)1–5(–9.5) cm. |
Pedicels | 0.3–0.6 mm. |
0.3–0.5 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. |
not nodding, usually separated by distinct intervals; calyx (2.8–)3–4.3(–4.5) mm, loosely strigulose to hirsute, tube 1.6–2(–2.1) mm, rib intervals each with 5 or 6 glands, lobes ovate, unequal; corolla usually bicolored; banner whitish with yellowish eye, blue or bluish near margin, deltate-cordate to reniform, 2.8–4 mm; epistemonous petals blue proximally and pale distally, or blue-violet throughout; wings ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.6–3.8 × 1.4–2 mm; keel elliptic-obovate, 3.6–4.8 × 2.4–3.2 mm; stamens (5–)5.5–7 mm; filaments distinct to 2 mm; anthers 0.5–0.8 mm. |
Seeds | 2 mm. |
1.6–2 mm. |
Loments | obliquely obovoid, 2.6–3 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally. |
harp-shaped, 1.8–2.4 mm, puberulent, with arcs of glands distally. |
2n | = 20. |
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Marina calycosa |
Marina parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer (late summer–fall). | Flowering late winter–spring (fall). |
Habitat | Rocky or sandy hillsides in oak woodlands, dry grassland. | Rocky or sandy desert washes, alluvial fans. |
Elevation | 1200–2500 m. (3900–8200 ft.) | 10–1000 m. (0–3300 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora)
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AZ; CA; NV; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Marina |
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Synonyms | Dalea calycosa | Dalea parryi |
Name authority | (A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 83. (1977) | (Torrey & A. Gray) Barneby: Mem. New York Bot Gard. 27: 68. (1977) |
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