familyPolygonaceae
subfamilyPolygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
genusChorizanthe
subgenusChorizanthe subg. Quintaria
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Chorizanthe subg. Quintaria
Phytologia 66: 108. 1989.
Plants prostrate to spreading, thinly pubescent. Leaf-blades oblong. Stems not disarticulating at each node. Inflorescences: bracts 3, whorled, connate proximally, leaflike, awn-tipped. Involucres urceolate, not ventricose basally, 5-toothed, without membranous or scarious margins; teeth erect, connate more than 3/4 their length, shallow, unequal, 1 prominent and 4 shorter and equal. Flowers 1; perianth white, sometimes with yellowish tube, glabrous; stamens 9; filaments distinct, adnate at base of floral-tube. Achenes black, 3-gonous. Seeds: embryo curved.
Discussion
Species 1.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
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not winged +
black +
included +
glabrous +
homocarpic +
3-gonous +
dehiscing +
absent +
distal +
stipelike +
entire +
linear;oblanceolate or spatulate +
awn-tipped +
leaflike +
whorled +
connate +
absent +
connate +
brittle +
free +
aerial +
pubescent +
round +
woody +
Calif. +
curved +
nuclear +
abundant +
pedicellate +
bisexual +
disarticulating +
aerial +
fistulose +
slender +
homocarpic +
bractlike +
capitate +
racemose +
axillary +
enclosed +
nonmembranous +
oblong +
bractlike +
awn-tipped +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
basal +
articulate +
absent +
accrescent +
cluster +
reflexed +
absent +
erect to deflexed +
winged +
white +
persistent +
glabrous +
pustulose +
accrescent +
absent +
indistinct +
Phytologia +
1989 +
fibrous +
ringlike +
longitudinal +
recurved +
absent +
not disarticulating +
scandent +
absent +
pubescent +
peltate +
capitate +
foliaceous +
absent +
chartaceous +
arranged +
involucral +
absent +
distinct +
erect;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Chorizanthe subg. Quintaria +
Chorizanthe +
subgenus +
absent +
monomorphic +
entire +
connate +
dimorphic +
2/3 +
coriaceous +
awn-tipped +
shallow +
connate +
shorter +
erect +
prominent +
unequal +
equal +
yellowish +
persistent +
membranous +
glandular-punctate +
developing +
raised +
homophyllous +
annual +
prostrate;spreading +
pubescent +
polycarpic +