Vauquelinia californica subsp. californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. pauciflora |
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Arizona rosewood |
Arizona rosewood |
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Young stems | initially tomentulose, becoming canescent or tardily glabrate. |
loosely tomentulose, tardily glabrescent. |
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(–22) mm; blade green or yellow-green, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic or oblong-elliptic, sometimes oblong-ovate, (2.2–)3–7.5(–9) × (0.6–)0.8–1.4(–2) cm, surfaces glabrate or puberulent along midveins. |
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 × 2.5–3.3 mm, exterior puberulent, interior glabrate; sepals 1.1–2.2 × 1.4–2 mm, abaxially puberulent to glabrate; petals 3.4–5.4 × 2.4–3.4 mm; filaments (2.5–)3–6 mm. |
Capsules | 5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
(4.5–)5–6 × 3.5–4(–4.5) mm. |
Seeds | 4–5 × 1.2–1.3 mm. |
3.8–5 × 1.1–1.4 mm. |
Corymbs | 3–5(–12) × 3–8(–13) cm. |
1.5–5 × 1.7–7 cm, puberulent to glabrate. |
2n | = 30. |
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Vauquelinia californica subsp. californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. pauciflora |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Limestone and granite substrates, shrublands of upper Sonoran Desert from above desert plains to lower pinyon-juniper zones | Limestone substrates in arid chaparral-desert scrub |
Elevation | 700–1800 m (2300–5900 ft) | 1400–2300 m (4600–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur) |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango) |
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 pauciflora is known from Cochise County, Arizona, and Hidalgo County, New Mexico. These plants have relatively small (to 5.5 mm) and thickened leaves with short petioles (to 7 mm), and small inflorescences. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 430. | FNA vol. 9, p. 431. |
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Synonyms | V. pauciflora | |
Name authority | unknown | (Standley) W. J. Hess & Henrickson: Sida 12: 135. (1987) |
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