Mentzelia multicaulis |
Mentzelia hualapaiensis |
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manystem blazingstar, multiple-branch blazingstar |
Hualapai blazingstar |
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Habit | Plants perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices or sometimes rhizomes. | Plants perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices. |
Stems | multiple, erect or decumbent, zigzag or straight; branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. |
multiple, erect, zigzag or straight; branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, upcurved; hairy. |
Leaves | blade 20–49(–57) × 4.2–19 mm, widest intersinus distance 1.1–5.3 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins pinnate to pinnatisect, lobes 4–10, slightly antrorse, 0.7–7.6 mm; distal linear to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins entire or pinnate, lobes 0–10, slightly antrorse, 1.9–7.8 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. |
blade 17–94 × 12–32 mm, widest intersinus distance 9.5–29 mm; proximal broadly spatulate to elliptic, margins serrate, teeth 6–12, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.4–1.5 mm; distal broadly spatulate, elliptic, or obovate, base not clasping, margins serrate, teeth 8–10, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1–3.6 mm; abaxial surface with complex grappling-hook and occasionally with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with needlelike trichomes. |
Bracts | margins entire. |
margins entire. |
Flowers | petals golden yellow, 10.6–17.9 × 5.1–9 mm, apex obtuse, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments oblanceolate, slightly clawed, 6.5–10.5 × 2–4.5 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers twisted or straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 6–11.5 mm. |
petals white to light yellow, 9.4–17.4(–20) × 1.7–4.3 mm, apex acute to rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens white to light yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 8.5–18 × 1–1.3(–2.9) mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis papillate; styles 5.8–9 mm. |
Capsules | cup-shaped to cylindric, 6–13.6 × 3.4–6 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged. |
cup-shaped, 4.9–10.3 × 4.6–8.6 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged. |
Seeds | coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–9 per cell. |
coat anticlinal cell walls straight to slightly wavy, papillae 8–14 per cell. |
2n | = 22. |
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Mentzelia multicaulis |
Mentzelia hualapaiensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Jun–Aug. | Flowering Mar–Jun(–Sep). |
Habitat | Sparsely vegetated steep slopes, drainage gullies, roadcuts. | Rocky desert scrub, gravelly canyon bottoms, steep travertine, shaley slopes associated with Muav limestone formations. |
Elevation | 2000–2500 m. (6600–8200 ft.) | 400–1400 m. (1300–4600 ft.) |
Distribution |
CO
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AZ |
Discussion | Mentzelia multicaulis is known to occur in Eagle, Grand, and Summit counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Mentzelia hualapaiensis is distributed in Coconino and Mohave counties along the Grand Canyon and its side canyons between the Upper and Lower Granite Gorge. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 511. | FNA vol. 12, p. 502. |
Parent taxa | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Bartonia | Loasaceae > Mentzelia > sect. Bartonia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Touterea multicaulis | |
Name authority | (Osterhout) J. Darlington: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 21: 156. (1934) | J. J. Schenk: W. C. Hodgson & L. Hufford, Brittonia 62: 1, figs. 1, 2A,C–E. (2010) |
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