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Bolander's Yampah, olasi

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Bolander's Yampah, olasi

Habit Herbs 15–90 cm; roots tuberous, 1 or 2–3-clustered, 1–7 cm. Herbs not glaucous.
Leaves

basal 2–4 pinnate;

petiole 2–15 cm;

blade deltate, ovate, or ovate-lanceolate, 10–20 cm, most primary leaflets dissected, ultimate divisions monomorphic or dimorphic (terminal more elongate than laterals), oblong to filiform, 5–60 mm (terminal sometimes to 80 mm), margins usually toothed or lobed;

cauline leaves usually 1-ternate or 1-ternate-pinnate.

Basal leaves

ultimate divisions of basal leaves dimorphic, laterals 5–30 mm, terminal 30–80 mm, both 1–4 mm wide.

Peduncles

2–20 cm.

Umbels

involucral bracts 8–12, linear to narrowly lanceolate;

rays 9–23, 1–2 cm, subequal, ascending or spreading-ascending;

involucel bractlets 4–10, obovate or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3–9 mm, widely scarious-margined or entirely scarious, apex acuminate;

umbellets convex, 18–30-flowered.

involucral bracts and involucel bractlets deciduous, narrowly lanceolate, entirely scarious;

umbellets 25–30-flowered.

Pedicels

2–5 mm.

Flowers

petals 1-veined;

styles 2 mm, spreading and usually recurved.

Schizocarps

oblong;

mericarps 4–6 mm;

ribs threadlike;

oil ducts 2–3 in intervals, 4 on commissure.

2n

= 38.

Perideridia bolanderi

Perideridia bolanderi subsp. bolanderi

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug; fruiting Aug.
Habitat Meadows, stream banks, open pine forests.
Elevation 800–2800 m. [2600–9200 ft.]
Distribution
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w United States
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CA; ID; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Perideridia bolanderi is distinguishable from all other species in the genus by the following combination of characters: ultimate divisions of the basal leaves dimorphic, or if homomorphic, less than 1 mm wide; bracts and bractlets broad, conspicuously scarious, and cuspidate or acuminate, or if only broadly scarious-margined and acuminate, the bracts persistent at maturity; and mericarps oblong with 2–3 oil ducts in the intervals. Although the two subspecies share this combination of characters, phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequence data shows that they do not form a monophyletic group, though this separation is only weakly supported (S. R. Downie et al. 2004).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies bolanderi is found from western Wyoming and northern Utah west across the Great Basin to eastern Oregon and Washington, and throughout the Sierra Nevada of California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Parent taxa Apiaceae > Perideridia Apiaceae > Perideridia > Perideridia bolanderi
Sibling taxa
P. americana, P. bacigalupii, P. californica, P. erythrorhiza, P. gairdneri, P. howellii, P. kelloggii, P. lemmonii, P. leptocarpa, P. montana, P. oregana, P. parishii, P. pringlei
P. bolanderi subsp. involucrata
Subordinate taxa
P. bolanderi subsp. bolanderi, P. bolanderi subsp. involucrata
Key
1. Plants not glaucous; ultimate divisions of basal leaf blades 1–4 mm wide, dimorphic (terminal more elongate than laterals); involucral bracts and involucel bractlets entirely scarious, deciduous.
subsp. bolanderi
1. Plants glaucous; ultimate divisions of basal leaf blades 0.3–0.7 mm wide, monomorphic; involucral bracts and involucel bractlets widely scarious-margined, persistent.
subsp. involucrata
Synonyms Podosciadium bolanderi
Name authority (A. Gray) A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride: Bot. Gaz. 61: 33. (1916) unknown
Source FNA vol. 13. Treatment authors: Fengjie Sun, Stephen R. Downie. FNA vol. 13. Treatment authors: Fengjie Sun, Stephen R. Downie.
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