Ribes victoris |
Ribes bracteosum |
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Victor's gooseberry |
blue currant, California black currant, stink currant |
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Habit | Plants 0.5–2 m. Stems erect, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes 1–3, 5–15 mm; prickles on internodes sparse. | Plants 1–4 m. Stems erect, with dense, yellowish, shiny, sessile, crystalline, round glands, sparsely pubescent throughout; spines at nodes absent; prickles on internodes absent. |
Leaves | petiole 1.5–5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade round-ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/4–1/3 to midrib, 1.5–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded, margins with few shallow teeth, apex rounded. |
petiole 2–10 cm, sparsely pubescent; blade ovate, deeply 5–7-lobed, cleft 1/2+ to midrib, (1.5–)2–10(–22) cm, base cordate, surfaces with yellow, dull, sessile glands and sparse hairs abaxially, with yellow, shiny, sessile glands and glabrous adaxially, lobes with main segments ovate-lanceolate, margins 1–2 times sharply serrate, apex acute, shallowly lobed. |
Inflorescences | pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis pilose, stipitate-glandular. |
ascending to erect, 20–50-flowered racemes, (10–)15–30 cm, axis sparsely pubescent, flowers evenly spaced. |
Pedicels | not jointed, 3–4 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. |
jointed, 5–12 mm, pubescent and glandular; bracts conspicuous, proximal ones ovate, lobed, distal ones narrowly oblong, unlobed, (3–)4–5 mm, sparsely glandular and pubescent. |
Flowers | hypanthium greenish white, conic, as wide as long, 3 mm (1/4–1/3 as long as sepals), stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, white, pink-tinged at base, oblong-lanceolate, 6–11 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 2 times as long as petals; filaments linear, ca. 6 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, lanceolate-sagittate, 3 mm, apex mucronate; ovary densely glandular, with longer glandless bristles; styles connate to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous. |
hypanthium green, saucer-shaped, widely flared, 0.5–1.5 mm, ± pubescent and sparsely glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals nearly to somewhat overlapping, spreading, brownish purple to greenish or sometimes nearly white, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 mm; petals widely separated, erect, white, cuneate-flabelliform, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 1 mm; nectary disc wine red, thick, lobed, covering and submerging ovary; stamens slightly longer than petals; filaments linear to slightly broader at base, 1 mm, glabrous; anthers white, transversely oblong-cordate, 0.5 mm, broader than long, apex shallowly notched; ovary somewhat hairy and densely sessile-glandular; styles connate 1/4–1/2 their lengths, 1 mm, glabrous or hairy. |
Berries | palatability not known, golden yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, glandular-bristly. |
bland, black, subglobose, 8–10 mm, glandular. |
2n | = 16. |
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Ribes victoris |
Ribes bracteosum |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr. | Flowering Feb–Jun. |
Habitat | Wooded canyon slopes | Stream banks, moist woods, floodplains, shorelines, thickets, avalanche tracks |
Elevation | 0-800 m (0-2600 ft) | 0-1700 m (0-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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AK; CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Ribes victoris occurs in the counties around San Francisco Bay north to Sonoma and Lake counties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Ribes bracteosum occurs along the Pacific Coast from southeastern Alaska to northern California. Its thin leaves have a sweetish, disagreeable odor and the conspicuous bracts bear acicular, mostly persistent processes near the base along the slightly winged, stipular margins. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 32. | FNA vol. 8, p. 18. |
Parent taxa | Grossulariaceae > Ribes | Grossulariaceae > Ribes |
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Synonyms | Grossularia greeneiana, Grossularia victoris, R. victoris var. minus | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 224. 1888 , | Douglas: in W. J. Hooker, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 233. 1832 , |
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