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trumpet gooseberry

Habit Plants 0.5–2 m. Stems erect or arching, crisped-puberulent, glabrescent; spines at nodes 1–3, 2–19 mm; prickles on internodes absent or sparse to dense.
Leaves

petiole (0.1–)0.7–2(–4) cm, crisped-puberulent;

blade orbiculate or reniform-orbiculate, 3–5(–7)-lobed, cleft nearly to midrib, 0.5–1.6(–2.7) cm, base subcordate or truncate, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes puberulent, rarely glandular-pubescent, lobes oblong to cuneate, margins with acute teeth, sometimes revolute, apex rounded.

Inflorescences

pendent, solitary flowers or 2(–4)-flowered racemes, 1.5–2.5 cm, axis puberulent, flowers evenly spaced.

Pedicels

not jointed, 0.5–1 mm, puberulent;

bracts lanceolate, 0.5–4 mm, (with 2 smaller bractlets immediately proximal to each flower), puberulent.

Flowers

hypanthium greenish white to white, tubular, (2.3–)4–6 mm, softly hispid abaxially, glabrous adaxially;

sepals not overlapping, spreading, greenish white to white, lanceolate, (2.5–)3.5–7 mm;

petals nearly connivent, erect, cream with red margins, whitish or pinkish, oblanceolate to spatulate-obovate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 2–4.4 mm;

nectary disc not prominent;

stamens nearly as long as petals;

filaments linear, 1.3–3 mm, glabrous;

anthers cream to violet, oval, 0.5–1.6 mm, apex with cup-shaped depression;

ovary pubescence not bristly, hairs soft;

styles connate nearly to stigmas, 0.7–1 mm, glabrous.

Berries

palatable, dark red to black, globose, 5–10 mm, glabrous, sometimes sparsely puberulent or glandular-pubescent.

2n

= 16.

Ribes leptanthum

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun(-Jul).
Habitat Coniferous forests
Elevation 1700-3000 m (5600-9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT
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Source FNA vol. 8, p. 29.
Parent taxa Grossulariaceae > Ribes
Sibling taxa
R. acerifolium, R. amarum, R. americanum, R. aureum, R. binominatum, R. bracteosum, R. californicum, R. canthariforme, R. cereum, R. curvatum, R. cynosbati, R. diacanthum, R. divaricatum, R. echinellum, R. erythrocarpum, R. glandulosum, R. hirtellum, R. hudsonianum, R. indecorum, R. inerme, R. lacustre, R. lasianthum, R. laxiflorum, R. lobbii, R. malvaceum, R. marshallii, R. menziesii, R. mescalerium, R. missouriense, R. montigenum, R. nevadaense, R. nigrum, R. niveum, R. oxyacanthoides, R. pinetorum, R. quercetorum, R. roezlii, R. rotundifolium, R. rubrum, R. sanguineum, R. sericeum, R. speciosum, R. thacherianum, R. triste, R. tularense, R. uva-crispa, R. velutinum, R. viburnifolium, R. victoris, R. viscosissimum, R. watsonianum, R. wolfii
Name authority A. Gray: Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s. 4: 53. 1849 ,
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