Mentzelia albescens |
Mentzelia reverchonii |
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wavy-leaf blazingstar |
Reverchon's blazingstar |
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Habit | Plants biennial, candelabra-form. | Plants biennial or perennial, candelabra-form, perennials with ground-level caudices. |
Stems | solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy. |
solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. |
Leaves | blade 31–92(–157) × 10.5–27.6(–41) mm, widest intersinus distance 5.2–23.3(–29) mm; proximal lanceolate or elliptic, margins serrate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 8–22, slightly antrorse, 1.8–6 mm; distal lanceolate, base clasping, margins usually serrate to pinnate, occasionally entire, teeth or lobes (0–)10–20, slightly antrorse, 1.4–7.6 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. |
blade 24.2–54 × 6.6–29 mm, widest intersinus distance 5.4–13.5(–22.4) mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins dentate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 10–20, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.1–5 mm; distal lanceolate, base not clasping, margins dentate, teeth 8–14, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.6–3.8 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and occasionally needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. |
Bracts | margins entire. |
margins usually toothed, occasionally entire. |
Flowers | petals golden yellow, 5.7–9.2 × 1.3–3 mm, apex usually acute, occasionally rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 4.7–8.4 × 1–2.4 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 3.5–5.4 mm. |
petals golden yellow, (9.6–)11.1–14.1(–22) × 2.5–4.2(–5.5) mm, apex acute to rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 9.4–13.4(–20) × 2.2–3.7(–5) mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 8.7–11.4(–13) mm. |
Capsules | cylindric, 13.6–23.5 × 5.1–7.8 mm, base tapering, not or slightly longitudinally ridged. |
usually cylindric, rarely cup-shaped, 9.4–22 × 6–9.1 mm, length usually more than, occasionally a few slightly less than, 2 times diam., base tapering, not longitudinally ridged. |
Seeds | coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–17 per cell. |
coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 5–7 per cell. |
2n | = 22. |
= 18. |
Mentzelia albescens |
Mentzelia reverchonii |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Nov. | Flowering Apr–Oct. |
Habitat | Dry grasslands, xeric habitats of arroyos, roadsides, roadcuts, washes, chat piles, slopes. | Grasslands on eroded riverbanks, roadsides, roadcuts, sparsely vegetated hillside slopes, sandy, gravelly, clayey, occasionally gypsum soils. |
Elevation | 200–1600 m. (700–5200 ft.) | 50–600 m. (200–2000 ft.) |
Distribution |
KS; MO; OK; TX; South America (Argentina, Chile) |
CO; NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León) |
Discussion | Phylogenetic analyses (J. J. Schenk and L. Hufford 2011) recovered representative populations of Mentzelia albescens from Texas and South America in a monophyletic group. Phylogenetic placement of these populations among lineages in sect. Bartonia, as well as a lack of morphological differentiation among North American and South American populations, suggests a recent dispersal to South America. In the flora area, this species is native to central and western Texas, and introduced in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 518. | FNA vol. 12, p. 519. |
Parent taxa | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Bartonia | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Bartonia |
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Synonyms | Bartonia albescens, B. wrightii | M. pumila var. reverchonii, M. hintoniorum, Nuttallia reverchonii |
Name authority | (Gillies ex Arnott) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Grisebach: Abh. Königl. Ges. Wiss. Göttingen 19: 150. (1874) | (Urban & Gilg) H. J. Thompson & Zavortink: Wrightia 4: 24. (1968) |
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