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Laguna Mountain jewelflower, Laguna Mountains. jewel flower

Habit Perennials; (caudex woody, often elevated); (glaucous), glabrous, (petioles and sepal apices pubescent).
Stems

unbranched or branched (few), 2.5–8.6 dm.

Basal leaves

not rosulate; petiolate (petioles ciliate);

blade oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–8 cm (7–-25 mm wide), margins remotely dentate apically.

Cauline leaves

blade ovate to lanceolate, 2–10 cm × 5–28 mm (smaller distally), base amplexicaul, margins entire, (apex acute to acuminate).

Racemes

ebracteate, (lax in bud).

Flowers

calyx campanulate;

sepals (ascending), pale yellow to white, (broadly oblong to ovate) 5–9 mm, not keeled;

petals white, 7–11 mm, blade 2–4 × 1–1.3 mm, margins not crisped, claw 6–9 mm, wider than blade;

stamens nearly tetradynamous;

filaments: median pairs (distinct), 6.5–8.5 mm, lateral pair 4.5–5.5 mm;

anthers (all) fertile, 3.5–4.5 mm;

gynophore 0.5–1.5 mm.

Fruiting pedicels

divaricate-ascending, (straight), 4–7.5 mm.

Fruits

ascending to spreading, smooth, straight or curved, flattened, 5–12.7 cm × 1.5–3 mm;

valves each with obscure midvein (at least distally);

replum straight;

ovules 36–56 per ovary;

style 0.8–2.5 mm;

stigma subentire.

Seeds

oblong, 2–3 × 1.4–2 mm;

wing 0.1–0.2 mm wide at apex.

2n

= 28.

Streptanthus bernardinus

Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Dry open pine or cypress woods, chaparral
Elevation 1200-2500 m (3900-8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion

Streptanthus bernardinus is known from San Bernardino and San Diego counties; in Baja California it is restricted to Sierra Juárez and Sierra San Pedro Mártir.

The chromosome number 2n = 14, reported by R. C. Rollins (1993) and by R. E. Buck et al. (1993), must be an error for n = 14. No other species of Streptanthus or its immediate generic relatives has such a low number.

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

Source FNA vol. 7, p. 705.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Streptanthus
Sibling taxa
S. barbatus, S. barbiger, S. batrachopus, S. brachiatus, S. bracteatus, S. breweri, S. callistus, S. campestris, S. carinatus, S. cordatus, S. cutleri, S. diversifolius, S. drepanoides, S. farnsworthianus, S. fenestratus, S. glandulosus, S. gracilis, S. hesperidis, S. hispidus, S. howellii, S. hyacinthoides, S. insignis, S. longisiliquus, S. maculatus, S. morrisonii, S. oblanceolatus, S. oliganthus, S. petiolaris, S. platycarpus, S. polygaloides, S. squamiformis, S. tortuosus, S. vernalis, S. vimineus
Synonyms Agianthus bernardinus, Agianthus jacobaeus, S. campestris var. bernardinus, S. campestris var. jacobaeus
Name authority (Greene) Parish: Pl. World 20: 216. (1917)
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