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white entire leaf thelypodium

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entire-leaf thelypody

Racemes

(congested), elongated in fruit;

central rachis (3.7–)4.5–12(–16.5) cm.

elongated or sub-umbellate in fruit;

central rachis (0.5–)1.2–10(–25) cm.

Flowers

petals white, (5–)6–9(–10) mm;

gynophore stout, (0.5–)1–3 mm.

petals usually lavender to purple, rarely white, (4.5–)5.5–8(–10.5) mm;

gynophore stout, 0.5–1.2(–2.5).

Fruiting pedicels

horizontal to divaricate, straight, whitish, stout, (5–)6–9(–13) mm, moderately flattened at base.

usually divaricate to divaricate-ascending, rarelyhorizontal, straight or slightly incurved, not whitish,often slender, sometimes stout, (4–)6–10(–13) mm, not or slightly flattened at base.

Fruits

usually horizontal or divaricate, rarely divaricate-ascending, incurved, (1.4–)1.9–3.7(–4.5) cm.

divaricate-ascending to ascending, straight or incurved, (1–)1.5–3(–4) cm.

2n

= 26.

= 26.

Thelypodium integrifolium subsp. affine

Thelypodium integrifolium subsp. integrifolium

Phenology Flowering Jun–Oct. Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Desert flats, shrub communities, alkaline grounds Alkaline grounds and flats, desert shrub communities, barren hillsides, mineralized grounds near hot springs
Elevation 600-1800 m (2000-5900 ft) 600-2500 m (2000-8200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; NV; UT
[BONAP county map]
from FNA
CO; ID; MT; ND; NE; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 733. FNA vol. 7, p. 733.
Parent taxa Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Thelypodium > Thelypodium integrifolium Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Thelypodium > Thelypodium integrifolium
Sibling taxa
T. integrifolium subsp. complanatum, T. integrifolium subsp. gracilipes, T. integrifolium subsp. integrifolium, T. integrifolium subsp. longicarpum
T. integrifolium subsp. affine, T. integrifolium subsp. complanatum, T. integrifolium subsp. gracilipes, T. integrifolium subsp. longicarpum
Synonyms T. affine, Pleurophragma rhomboideum, T. integrifolium var. affine, T. rhomboideum Pleurophragma lilacinum, T. lilacinum, T. lilacinum var. subumbellatum
Name authority (Greene) Al-Shehbaz: Contr. Gray Herb. 204: 110. (1973) unknown
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