Flora of North America species comparison

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Tellima

fringe cups, fringecup, tellima
Habit Herbs, not rhizomatous, not stoloniferous; caudex erect, scaly.
Flowering stems

erect, leafy, 40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular.
Leaves

in basal rosette and cauline;

cauline leaves 2–3, alternate, relatively large, reduced distally;

stipules present;

petiole stipitate-glandular;

blade orbiculate or ovate, shallowly 5–9-lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins serrate to crenate, apex acute or rounded, surfaces sparsely stipitate-glandular on veins abaxially, sparsely to moderately densely long stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid adaxially;

venation palmate.
Inflorescences

racemes, terminal from axillary buds in rosette, 14–30-flowered, bracteate.
Flowers

hypanthium adnate to ovary in proximal 1/2, free 2–3 mm, green;

sepals 5, greenish;

petals 5, greenish white or cream to pinkish red (sometimes drying dark red);

nectary tissue not seen or inconspicuous;

stamens 10;

filaments filiform;

ovary 1/4 inferior, 1-locular;

placentation parietal;

styles 2;

stigmas 2, (enlarged).
Capsules

2-beaked.
Seeds

dark brown, ellipsoid, warty.
x

= 7.

Tellima
Distribution
from USDA
w North America
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1: w North America.

Based on ITS-1 and ITS-2 analysis by D. E. Soltis and R. K. Kuzoff (1995), Tellima is closest to Lithophragma.

Species 1

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 76. Authors: Elizabeth Fortson Wells, Patrick E. Elvander†.
Parent taxa Saxifragaceae
Subordinate taxa
T. grandiflora
Name authority R. Brown: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 765. 1823 ,
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