Tellima grandiflora |
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bigflower tellima, fragrant fringecup, fringe cups, fringecup, large-flower fringecup |
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Leaves | stipules sheathing, greenish, ca. 5 mm, membranous; petiole 3–30 cm; blade 3.5–10 cm, ultimate margins ciliate. |
Inflorescences | 40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid; bracts subtending pedicels scalelike. |
Flowers | hypanthium campanulate to widely urceolate, 4.5–9 mm, stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, elliptic, 1–3 mm, apex acute; petals erect proximally, spreading to reflexed distally, obovate, 5–7-lobed, 3–7 mm, lobes usually linear; stamens included, 0.8–1 mm; filaments 0.5 mm; styles included, 1–1.5 mm. |
Capsules | ovoid, 7–8 mm. |
Seeds | 100–150, 0.8–1 mm. |
2n | = 14. |
Tellima grandiflora |
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Phenology | Flowering Apr–Jul. |
Habitat | Moist forests, thickets, meadows, rocky slopes, often near streams |
Elevation | 0-2000 m [0-6600 ft] |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Tellima grandiflora is found in moist, shaded sites from Alaska and British Columbia to California south of San Francisco. It resembles species of Mitella in its finely pinnatifid petals but is distinguished from most of them by the two to three conspicuous, alternate, cauline leaves in Tellima. It is distinguished from M. caulescens by the latter’s basipetalous anthesis. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 8, p. 77. |
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Synonyms | Mitella grandiflora, T. odorata |
Name authority | (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindley: Bot. Reg. 14: plate 1178. (1828) |
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