Vauquelinia californica subsp. sonorensis |
Vauquelinia californica |
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Sonora rosewood |
Arizona rosewood |
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Habit | Shrubs or trees, rounded to ovoid, 10–50(–80) dm, usually multistemmed. | |||||||||
Young stems | densely white-tomentulose, becoming canescent. |
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Leaves | petiole (4–)6–16(–22) mm; blade bicolor, abaxially white, adaxially green and nonlustrous, linear to linear-lanceolate, (2.5–)5–11(–15) × (0.6–)0.7–1.2(–1.4) cm, surfaces villous-tomentulose, soon or tardily glabrescent except for hairy midveins. |
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 × 3–3.5 mm, exterior white villous-tomentulose, interior glabrous except at base; sepals 1.3–1.8 × 1.6–2 mm, villous-tomentulose; petals 4–5 × 2.4–3 mm; filaments 3–5 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 × 3.5–4 mm. |
4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
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Seeds | 3.5–4 × 0.9–1.2 mm. |
3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm. |
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Corymbs | 1.5–4.5 × 2–6.5 cm, villous to tomentulose. |
1.5–5(–12) × 1.7–8(–13) cm, tomentulose, sometimes sparsely hairy or glabrate. |
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Vauquelinia californica subsp. sonorensis |
Vauquelinia californica |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||
Habitat | Canyon margins and hillsides of the Sonoran Desert | |||||||||
Elevation | 700–1500 m (2300–4900 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Baja California) |
AZ; NM; n Mexico
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Discussion | Subspecies sonorensis is known from the Ajo Mountains in Pima County. Some plants from the Baboquivari Mountains of Pima County have somewhat similar narrow leaves but lack the dense vestiture on stems, inflorescences, and abaxial leaf surfaces. (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. 431. | FNA vol. 9, p. 430. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Spiraea californica | |||||||||
Name authority | W. J. Hess & Henrickson: Sida 12: 130, figs. 11a–c. (1987) | (Torrey) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 2: 400. (1889) | ||||||||
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