Corispermum ochotense

Ignatov

Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. 91(3): 113, fig. 2ß. 1986.

Common names: Okhotia n bugseed Alaskan bugseed
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Mentioned on page 313, 314, 315, 316.

Plants branched from the base or nearly so, 5–15 (–20) cm, sparsely covered with dendroid or stellate hairs, becoming glabrous. Leaf-blades linear-oblanceolate (linear-spatulate) or linear, often broadest in distal 1/3, plane, 1–3.5 × 0.1–0.3 cm, abruptly contracted into mucronulate apex. Inflorescences compact and dense, short-clavate or almost ovoid (if linear, then all bracts leaflike). Bracts ovatelanceolate, lanceolate, or linear-lanceolate (proximal bracts usually linear, leaflike, 4–7 times fruit length), (0.5–) 1–1.5 (–3) × (0.1–) 0.2–0.5 cm. Perianth segment 1. Fruits reddish-brown, dark-brown, deep olive green (then often tinged with red), or deep beet red, usually without dark spots or whitish warts, strongly convex abaxially, plane or slightly concave adaxially, obovate-elliptic or almost obovate, usually broadest near middle (rarely slightly beyond middle), (2.5–) 2.8–4 × 1.8–2.7 mm; wing translucent only at margins, thick, (0.1–) 0.2–0.3 mm wide, margins entire, apex broadly triangular or almost rounded.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Corispermum ochotense is conspicuous in that it is usually red at maturity. No specimens of Corispermum have been seen from Yukon Territory, but the species might be expected there. One collection of immature plants from northern Saskatchewan (see S. L. Mosyakin 1995) probably also belongs to C. ochotense. Specimens of C. ochotense have been misidentified in North America and northeast Asia as C. hyssopifolium Linnaeus and C. sibiricum Iljin.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Fruits (2.5-)2.8-3.2 × 1.8-2.2 mm Corispermum ochotense var. ochotense
1 Fruits 3.2-4 × 2.2-2.7 mm Corispermum ochotense var. alaskanum

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... more about "Corispermum ochotense"
orbiculate +, elliptic +, obovate +, ovate +, lenticular +, , +, concave +, plane +  and convex to almost +
verrucose +
rounded +, triangular +  and mucronulate +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
Ignatov +
slippery +
aromatic +
small whitish +
convolute +, flat +, filiform +, linear +, linear-lanceolate +  and lanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
persistent +  and deciduous +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
linear-lanceolate +, lanceolate +  and ovatelanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
Okhotia n bugseed +  and Alaskan bugseed +
N.W.T. +, Alaska +  and Eurasia +
horseshoe--shaped +
symmetric +, or +  and uniseriate +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
beet red +, deep +, olive green +, dark-brown +  and reddish-brown +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
obovate +, obovate-elliptic +, concave +, plane +  and convex +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
ovoid +  and short-clavate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
plane;linear;linear-oblanceolate +
0.1cm +  and 0.3cm +
wingless +  and winged +
erose-denticulate +, undulate +  and entire +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.27 cm2.7 mm <br />0.0027 m <br />) +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
nonadherent +  and adherent +
accrescent +
papery +  and chartaceous +
not accrescent +  and small +
Byull. Moskovsk. Obshch. Isp. Prir., Otd. Biol. +
pointing +  and ascending +
basal +, median +  and position +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
characteristic +
verrucate +  and striate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
rounded +  and flattened +
cylindric +
1 +  and 3 +
not armed +, not jointed +  and branched +
opposite +  and alternate +
ascending +  and erect +
not fleshy +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Corispermum ochotense +
Corispermum +
species +
whitish +  and dark spots +
polygamous +, dioecious +  and monoecious +
0.2mm;0.3mm +