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slimleaf rosewood

Arizona rosewood

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

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.

Capsules

4.5–6.5 × 3.5–4.5 mm.

Seeds

3.5–5 × 0.9–1.4 mm.

Corymbs

1.5–5(–12) × 1.7–8(–13) cm, tomentulose, sometimes sparsely hairy or glabrate.

Vauquelinia corymbosa

Vauquelinia californica

Distribution
from FNA
TX; Mexico
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from FNA
AZ; NM; n Mexico
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Discussion

Subspecies 6 (1 in the flora).

(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.)

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. 431. FNA vol. 9, p. 430.
Parent taxa Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Vauquelinia Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Maleae > Vauquelinia
Sibling taxa
V. californica
V. corymbosa
Subordinate taxa
V. corymbosa subsp. angustifolia
V. californica subsp. californica, V. californica subsp. pauciflora, V. californica subsp. sonorensis
Synonyms Spiraea californica
Name authority Bonpland: in A. von Humboldt and A. J. Bonpland, Pl. Aequinoct. 1: 140, plate 40. (1807) (Torrey) Sargent: Gard. & Forest 2: 400. (1889)
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