Brodiaea coronaria

(Salisbury) Engler

Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 2: 317. 1899.

IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Hookera coronaria Salisbury Parad. Lond. 2: plate 98. 1808
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 324. Mentioned on page 322, 323, 325.

Scape 4–25 cm, slender. Flowers 24–38 mm; perianth bluish violet, bluish purple, rosy purple, or rose, tube ovoid to campanulate, 6–13 cm, opaque, not splitting in fruit, lobes ascending, recurved distally, 12–25 mm; filaments 3–4 mm, base dilated to form triangular flap; anthers linear, 5–7 mm, apex hooked or rounded; staminodia curving inward toward stamens overall but curving outward at apex, white or pink, broad, 10–11 mm, margins 3/4 involute, apex rounded; ovary 6–9 mm; style 6–11 mm; pedicel 1–5 cm.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Most of the plants that W. L. Jepson (1923–1925) placed under this name have been transferred to Brodiaea elegans (T. F. Niehaus 1971, 1980).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Perianth bluish violet or bluish purple; corm coat heavily fibrous; nw United States, British Columbia. Brodiaea coronaria subsp. coronaria
1 Perianth rosy purple or rose; corm coat thin; only in California Coast Ranges. Brodiaea coronaria subsp. rosea

"broad" is not a number."narrower" is not a number."thicker" is not a number.

... more about "Brodiaea coronaria"
cordate +  and linear +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
rounded +  and hooked +
J. Chris Pires +
(Salisbury) Engler +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
dilated +
Hookera coronaria +
reticulate-veined +  and parallel-veined +
crescent--shaped +
sheathing +  and involucrate +
1;several +
tunicate +  and scaly +
fibrous-coated +
w North America +
connate-coroniform +  and dilated +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
triangular +
sessile +  and pedicellate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
2.4 cm24 mm <br />0.024 m <br /> (3.8 cm38 mm <br />0.038 m <br />) +
loculicidal +
membranaceous +  and leathery +
bracteate +, open +  and umbellate +
paired +, paniculate +  and racemose +
persistent +
recurved +  and ascending +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
rose +, rosy purple +, bluish purple +  and bluish violet +
alternating +  and opposite +
Notizbl. Königl. Bot. Gart. Berlin +
cylindrical +
slender +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
wind-distributed +
1 +  and many +
rounded +  and flattened +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
adnate +  and free +
epitepalous +
pink +  and white +
1 +  and several +
3 +  and 1 +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
Brodiaea coronaria +
Brodiaea +
species +
connate +  and distinct +
sepaloid +  and petaloid +
ovoid +  and campanulate +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (13 cm130 mm <br />0.13 m <br />) +
narrower +
3 +  and 2 +
24 +, 20 +, 18 +, 16 +, 12 +, 8 +  and 6 +