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Arizona rosewood

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Arizona rosewood

Habit Shrubs or trees, rounded to ovoid, 10–50(–80) dm, usually multistemmed.
Young stems

loosely tomentulose, tardily glabrescent.

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.

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.

Capsules

4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm.

(4.5–)5–6 × 3.5–4(–4.5) mm.

Seeds

3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm.

3.8–5 × 1.1–1.4 mm.

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.

Vauquelinia californica

Vauquelinia californica subsp. pauciflora

Phenology Flowering spring.
Habitat Limestone substrates in arid chaparral-desert scrub
Elevation 1400–2300 m (4600–7500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; n Mexico
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from FNA
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.)

Key
1. Leaves green or yellow-green, glabrate or puberulent along midveins.
subsp. pauciflora
1. Leaves bicolor, abaxially white-puberulent or villous-tomentulose (or tardily glabrescent in plants of c Arizona), adaxially green
→ 2
2. Leaf blades lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, (0.7–)1–2(–3.2) cm wide, usually abaxially sparsely white-puberulent, sometimes glabrate or glabrous.
subsp. californica
2. Leaf blades linear to linear-lanceolate, (0.6–)0.7–1.2(–1.4) cm wide, abaxially villous-tomentulose, soon or tardily glabrescent except for hairy midveins.
subsp. sonorensis
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
Sibling taxa
V. corymbosa
V. californica subsp. californica, V. californica subsp. sonorensis
Subordinate taxa
V. californica subsp. californica, V. californica subsp. pauciflora, V. californica subsp. sonorensis
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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