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Oxytropis kokrinensis

kokrines locoweed, kokrines oxytrope
Habit Plants cespitose, appearing acaulescent; caudex branches with persistent, purplish brown or reddish purple stipules and petiole bases.
Leaves

1–5 cm;

stipules membranous, purplish brown or reddish brown, sparsely pilose but early glabrate, margins ciliate;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades elliptic to lanceolate, 4–6 × 1–2 mm, flat, margins revolute or folded, apex acute, surfaces sparsely hirsute.
Racemes

1–3-flowered.
Peduncles

0.5–5 cm, sometimes slightly exceeding leaves, sparsely pilose;

bract ovate to lanceolate, hispidulous.
Corollas

purplish, 12–15(–16) mm.
Calyces

campanulate, villous-pilose, hairs white or black;

tube 4–6 mm, lobes 2–4 mm.
Legumes

reclining on ground at maturity, stipitate, stipe 1.5–6 mm, inflated, 20–35 × 5–8(–15) mm (usually at least 3 times longer than wide), ± bilocular, short-pilose.

Oxytropis kokrinensis
Phenology Flowering summer.
Habitat Ridge tops, alpine fellfields, mountain-avens meadows.
Elevation 300–1000 m. (1000–3300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AK
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Oxytropis kokrinensis is a distinctive but obscure species known from about 20 sites in the Kokrines Mountains, the western Brooks Range, and scattered populations across west-central Alaska.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Oxytropis
Sibling taxa
O. arctica, O. besseyi, O. borealis, O. campestris, O. deflexa, O. huddelsonii, O. kobukensis, O. lagopus, O. lambertii, O. maydelliana, O. mertensiana, O. multiceps, O. nana, O. nigrescens, O. oreophila, O. parryi, O. podocarpa, O. riparia, O. scammaniana, O. sericea, O. splendens
Name authority A. E. Porsild: Rhodora 41: 251, plate 553. (1939)
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