Vauquelinia californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. sonorensis |
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Arizona rosewood |
Sonora 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 (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 (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. |
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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 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. |
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Capsules | 4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm. |
5–6 × 3.5–4 mm. |
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Seeds | 3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm. |
3.5–4 × 0.9–1.2 mm. |
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Corymbs | 1.5–5(–12) × 1.7–8(–13) cm, tomentulose, sometimes sparsely hairy or glabrate. |
1.5–4.5 × 2–6.5 cm, villous to tomentulose. |
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Vauquelinia californica |
Vauquelinia californica subsp. sonorensis |
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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; NM; n Mexico
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AZ; Mexico (Baja California) |
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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 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.) |
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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 | |||||||||
Name authority | (Torrey) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 2: 400. (1889) | W. J. Hess & Henrickson: Sida 12: 130, figs. 11a–c. (1987) | ||||||||
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