Boechera calderi

(G. A. Mulligan) Windham & Al-Shehbaz

Harvard Pap. Bot. 11: 259. 2007.

Basionym: Arabis calderi G. A. Mulligan Rhodora 97: 144, fig. 4. 1996
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 7. Treatment on page 368. Mentioned on page 354, 374.

Perennials; usually short-lived; apomictic; caudex not woody. Stems usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, 1–4.5 dm, glabrous throughout. Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, 1.5–6 mm wide, margins entire, ciliate at petiole base, trichomes to 0.8 mm, surfaces sparsely pubescent, trichomes sessile, malpighiaceous (usually at margin) and 3-rayed or 4-rayed, 0.15–0.4 mm. Cauline leaves: 5–17, often concealing stem proximally; blade auricles 1–3 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous. Racemes 10–25-flowered, unbranched. Fruiting pedicels erect, straight, 5–10 mm, glabrous. Flowers erect at anthesis; sepals glabrous; petals purple, 6–9 × 1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous; pollen spheroid. Fruits erect, appressed to rachis, not secund, straight, edges parallel, 3.5–6.5 cm × 1.8–2.5 mm; valves glabrous; ovules 64–134 per ovary; style 0–0.2 mm. Seeds biseriate to sub-biseriate, 1.8–2.2 × 1–1.8 mm; wing continuous, 0.2–0.5 mm wide.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat: Exposed rocky ridges, meadows, open forests near timberline
Elevation: 1500-3500 m

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., N.W.T., Yukon, Calif., Idaho, Mont., Oreg., Wash., Wyo.

Discussion

Morphological evidence suggests that Boechera calderi is an apomictic species that arose through hybridization between B. lyallii and B. stricta (see M. D. Windham and I. A. Al-Shehbaz 2007 for detailed comparison).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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oblong +  and ovate +
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz +  and Michael D. Windham +
(G. A. Mulligan) Windham & Al-Shehbaz +
not +  and rosulate +
Arabis calderi +
appendaged +  and unappendaged +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
not +  and auriculate +
lyrate-pinnatifid +, dentate +  and entire +
dissected +, repand +, sinuate +, crenate +  and dentate +
oblanceolate +
much smaller +  and reduced +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
urceolate +, campanulate +  and tubular +
branched +  and simple +
not woody +
petiolate +  and sessile +
well-developed +
indistinct +
not +  and differentiated +
emarginate +  and entire +
Alta. +, B.C. +, N.W.T. +, Yukon +, Calif. +, Idaho +, Mont. +, Oreg. +, Wash. +  and Wyo. +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (6.5 cm65 mm <br />0.065 m <br />) +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
1500-3500 m +
straight +  and curved +
not winged +  and unappendaged +
connate +  and distinct +
actinomorphic +
straight +
torulose +, falcate +, lanceolate +, oblong +  and linear +
Exposed rocky ridges, meadows, open forests near timberline +
annular +  and semiannular +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +, not +  and rosulate +
cauline +  and basal +
connate +  and distinct +
decurrent +
pinnatifid +
prominent +  and obscure +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +  and anatropous +
magenta +, red +, yellowish +, purple +, lavender +, pink +  and white +
rudimentary +
oblanceolate +  and spatulate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
Flowering Jun–Aug. +
trinucleate +  and 3(-11)-colpate +
spheroid +
Harvard Pap. Bot. +
unbranched;10-25-flowered +
slender +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
mucilaginous +
margined +, not winged +  and winged +
biseriate +  and sub-biseriate +
not +  and mucilaginous +
white +, black +, brown +  and yellow +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
orbicular +, oblong +  and flattened +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
persistent +  and caducous +
distinct +
spreading +, ascending +  and erect +
oblong +  and ovate +
reduced +
latiseptate +, schizocarpic +, samaroid +  and lomentaceous +
indehiscent +  and dehiscent +
angustiseptate +, flat +, angled +, terete +, torulose +, not +, segmented +  and nutletlike +
tetradynamous +
branched +  and unbranched +
procumbent +  and decumbent +
subsessile +, sessile +  and petiolate +
persistent +
distinct +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br />) +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
Cruciferae +
Boechera calderi +
Boechera +
species +
malpighiaceous +  and sessile +
0.015 cm0.15 mm <br />1.5e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
coiled +, 1-7-veined +  and veined +
anastomosing +
perennial +  and short-lived +
hispid +, hirsute +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
rhizomatous +, taprooted +, scapose +  and not +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
subshrub +  and herb +
aquatics +  and terrestrial +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
0.2mm;0.5mm +