Thelypodium wrightii |
Thelypodium crispum |
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Wright's stanleyella, Wright's thelypody |
crisp thelypody, crisped thelypody, wavy leaf thelypodium |
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Habit | Biennials; slightly glaucous, glabrous. | Biennials or perennials; (short-lived); often glaucous, glabrous or pubescent. |
Stems | branched distally, (6.5–)9.5–22.5(–28) dm. |
branched, (0.9–)1.3–7(–12) dm, (somewhat glaucous, glabrous throughout or pubescent basally). |
Basal leaves | (and proximal cauline): petiole (2–)4.5–8.5(–13.7) cm; blade often lanceolate, sometimes oblanceolate in outline (lateral lobes oblong to linear or deltate), (6.5–)9.5–22.5(–28) cm × 28–55(–75) mm, margins pinnately lobed or lyrate (lobes entire or denticulate). |
petiole (0.7–)2–8.5 cm, ciliate; blade usually oblanceolate to spatulate, rarely obovate or lanceolate, (1.5–)2.2–15(–25) cm × (6–)10–35(–50) mm, margins often pinnately lobed to lyrate, sometimes dentate or entire. |
Cauline leaves | petiolate; blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 3.5–8.5(–13.5) cm × 7–14(–23) mm, margins usually entire or dentate, rarely lobed. |
sessile; blade linear to lanceolate, smaller distally, (base sagittate or auriculate, appressed to stem), margins usually entire, rarely dentate. |
Racemes | somewhat lax, considerably elongated in fruit. |
dense, elongated in fruit, (flower buds narrowly oblong). |
Flowers | sepals spreading or ascending oblong to linear, (3–)4–6(–7) × (0.8–)1–1.3(–1.5) mm; petals usually white, rarely lavender, linear or oblong, 4–7.5(–9) × 1–1.8(–2) mm, margins not crisped, claw not differentiated from blade (base sometimes clawlike, to 2 mm, widest at base); nectar glands confluent; filaments equal, (3–)3.5–6.5(–8.5) mm; anthers (1–)1.5–2.5(–3) mm, circinately coiled; gynophore 0.2–2(–5) mm. |
sepals erect to ascending, oblong to linear-oblong, (3–)3.5–6(–8) × (0.8–)1–1.8(–2) mm; petals white to lavender, linear to narrowly oblanceolate, (6–)6.5–11(–14.5) × 0.5–0.7(–1) mm, margins strongly crisped, claw differentiated from blade, (slender, 2–4 mm, narrowest at base); nectar glands surrounding bases of lateral stamens, median glands absent; filaments subequal, (2.5–)4.5–8.5(–10.5) mm; anthers exserted, linear to narrowly oblong, 2–3.5(–4.5) mm, circinately coiled, (apiculate); gynophore 0.5–1.5(–3.5) mm. |
Fruiting pedicels | horizontal to divaricate, sometimes reflexed, straight or curved, sometimes secund, slender, (5–)7–13(–17) mm, slightly flattened at base. |
erect to erect-ascending, (appressed to rachis at least basally), straight or slightly curved, slender, (1.5–)2–5(–10) mm, not flattened at base. |
Fruits | horizontal or reflexed, torulose, straight to somewhat curved, flattened, (2.5–)3.8–7.4(–9) cm × 1–1.2(–1.5) mm, (replum not constricted between seeds); ovules 76–128 per ovary; style usually clavate to subclavate, rarely cylindrical, (0.5–)0.8–2(–3) mm. |
divaricate to ascending, torulose, straight or slightly curved, terete, (0.6–)1–2.5(–4.2) cm × 0.7–1(–1.8) mm; ovules 22–50 per ovary; style cylindrical, 0.5–1.5(–2.5) mm. |
Seeds | 0.7–1.3(–1.5) × 0.5–0.8 mm. |
(flattened), 1–1.5(–1.7) × 0.5–0.7(–1) mm. |
2n | = 26. |
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Thelypodium wrightii |
Thelypodium crispum |
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Phenology | Flowering (Mar-)Jun–Oct. | Flowering Jun–Aug. |
Habitat | Rock crevices, shady slopes, rocky hillsides, canyons, stream banks, creek beds, pinyon-juniper communities, oak woodlands | Alkaline meadows and desert flats, mineralized ground near hot springs, desert shrub communities |
Elevation | 1200-2300 m (3900-7500 ft) | 1200-3000(-3200) m (3900-9800(-10500) ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; TX; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Hidalgo)
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CA; NV
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Discussion | Study of extensive material that has accumulated during the past three decades reveals that the differences between subsp. oklahomensis and subsp. wrightii, which are based solely on variations in gynophore and fruit lengths, do not hold as clearly as previously thought (I. A. Al-Shehbaz 1973; R. C. Rollins 1993). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 738. | FNA vol. 7, p. 730. |
Parent taxa | Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Thelypodium | Brassicaceae > tribe Thelypodieae > Thelypodium |
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Synonyms | Stanleyella wrightii, T. wrightii subsp. oklahomensis | Thelypodiopsis crispa, T. brachycarpum var. crispum |
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 7. (1852) | Greene ex Payson: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 9: 264. (1923) |
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