Flora of North America species comparison

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Telesonix

brookfoam
Habit Herbs, rhizomatous, not stoloniferous; rhizome branched, scaly.
Flowering stems

erect, leafy, 3–23 cm, densely stipitate-glandular and eglandular-pubescent.
Leaves

in basal rosettes and cauline;

cauline reduced distally;

stipules expanded from petiole base;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade usually reniform, sometimes orbiculate-cordate, sometimes lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins 1–2 times crenate, apex rounded, surfaces stipitate-glandular, adaxial surface ± smooth;

venation palmate.
Inflorescences

cylindric panicles or simple cymes, terminal from terminal bud in rosette, branches 2–3-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate.
Flowers

± radially symmetric;

hypanthium adnate to 1/4–1/2 of ovary, free from ovary 1–3.5 mm, purplish, sometimes green;

sepals 5, purplish green;

petals 5, crimson-purple to violet-purple;

nectary tissue green, encircling base of styles at junction of ovary and free-hypanthium;

stamens 10;

filaments linear to subulate;

ovary 1/2 inferior, 2-locular, carpels connate in proximal 1/2;

placentation axile;

styles 2;

stigmas 2.
Capsules

2-beaked.
Seeds

brown, oblong, smooth.
x

= 7.

Telesonix
Distribution
from USDA
wc North America
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Boykinia Nuttall sect. Telesonix (Rafinesque) Gornall & Bohm

Species 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Petals crimson-purple, length at least 1.75 times sepals; styles connate ca. 3/4 their lengths.
T. jamesii
1. Petals violet-purple, length ca. 1.3 times sepals; styles connate ca. 1/2 their lengths.
T. heucheriformis
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 116. Author: Richard J. Gornall.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae
Subordinate taxa
T. heucheriformis, T. jamesii
Name authority Rafinesque: Fl. Tellur. 2: 69. 1837 ,
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