Vauquelinia californica subsp. californica |
Vauquelinia californica |
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Arizona rosewood |
Arizona rosewood |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, rounded to ovoid, 10–50(–80) dm, usually multistemmed. | |||||||||
Young stems | initially tomentulose, becoming canescent or tardily glabrate. |
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Leaves | petiole (4–)7–15(–26) mm; blade bicolor, abaxially white, adaxially green and lustrous, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, (3.5–)4–9(–15) × (0.7–)1–2(–3.2) cm, surfaces initially villous-tomentulose, abaxially usually sparsely white-puberulent, hairs slightly coiled, sometimes glabrate or glabrous, adaxially mostly glabrate or glabrous. |
petiole (1.5–)4–16(–26) mm; blade usually bicolor, sometimes green or yellow-green, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or linear, (2.2–)3–11(–15) × (0.6–)0.7–2(–3.2) cm, base obliquely cuneate to rounded, margins serrulate or crenulate, teeth 10–35(–50) per 5 cm, 0.1–0.5(–1.5) mm, apex acute, mostly mucronate, surfaces closely villous-tomentulose, abaxially more densely so, or glabrate or tardily glabrescent (some remaining crinkled hairs). |
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Flowers | hypanthium 2–2.5(–3) × 2–3.7(–4.5) mm, exterior tomentulose or tardily glabrate, interior glabrous; sepals 1.4–2.1 × 1.5–2.3 mm, puberulent-villous; petals 4–5 × 2.5–3.5 mm; filaments 3–5.5 mm. |
hypanthium 1.5–2.5(–3) × 2–3.7(–4.5) mm, tomentose to sparsely tomentulose or glabrate; sepals 1.1–2.2 × 1.4–2.3 mm, margins eglandular; petals oblong-ovate, 3.4–5.4 × 2.4–3.5 mm; filaments 2.5–6 mm. |
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Capsules | 5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
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Seeds | 4–5 × 1.2–1.3 mm. |
3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm. |
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Corymbs | 3–5(–12) × 3–8(–13) cm. |
1.5–5(–12) × 1.7–8(–13) cm, tomentulose, sometimes sparsely hairy or glabrate. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Vauquelinia californica subsp. californica |
Vauquelinia californica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||
Habitat | Limestone and granite substrates, shrublands of upper Sonoran Desert from above desert plains to lower pinyon-juniper zones | |||||||||
Elevation | 700–1800 m (2300–5900 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur) |
AZ; NM; n Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies californica shows considerable variation among populations, particularly with regard to vestiture, leaf size and shape, petiole length, and number of marginal teeth. Often populations within the same mountain ranges in Arizona share the same pattern of variation. Most of the populations have distinctly bicolor leaves, at least when young, or abaxially become weakly puberulent and persistently, closely tomentulose to canescent with tightly coiled hairs. The name Vauquelinia torreyi S. Watson, which is illegitimate, pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Subspecies 4 (3 in the flora). Subspecies retherfordii (I. M. Johnston) W. J. Hess & Henrickson is known from Coahuila and Durango in northern Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 430. | FNA vol. 9, p. 430. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Spiraea californica | |||||||||
Name authority | unknown | (Torrey) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 2: 400. (1889) | ||||||||
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