Vauquelinia californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. pauciflora |
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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 | loosely tomentulose, tardily glabrescent. |
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Leaves | 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). |
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. |
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Flowers | 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. |
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. |
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Capsules | 4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
(4.5–)5–6 × 3.5–4(–4.5) mm. |
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Seeds | 3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm. |
3.8–5 × 1.1–1.4 mm. |
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Corymbs | 1.5–5(–12) × 1.7–8(–13) cm, tomentulose, sometimes sparsely hairy or glabrate. |
1.5–5 × 1.7–7 cm, puberulent to glabrate. |
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Vauquelinia californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. pauciflora |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||
Habitat | Limestone substrates in arid chaparral-desert scrub | |||||||||
Elevation | 1400–2300 m (4600–7500 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; NM; n Mexico
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AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango) |
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Discussion | 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.) |
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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 430. | FNA vol. 9, p. 431. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Vauquelinia | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Vauquelinia > Vauquelinia californica | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Spiraea californica | V. pauciflora | ||||||||
Name authority | (Torrey) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 2: 400. (1889) | (Standley) W. J. Hess & Henrickson: Sida 12: 135. (1987) | ||||||||
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