Hulsea vestita subsp. callicarpha

(H. M. Hall) Wilken

Aliso 7: 413. 1972.

Common names: Beautiful hulsea
Endemic
Basionym: Hulsea vestita var. callicarpha H. M. Hall Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1: 129. 1902
Synonyms: Hulsea callicarpha
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 399.

Plants 40–100 cm. Leaves: proximal blades 3–8 cm, margins entire or undulate (sometimes weakly lobed near apices), faces densely lanate to woolly; cauline leaves (on proximal 1/4 of stems) lance-oblong to ovate (1.5–3 cm). Heads 1–3. Involucres obconic, 10–15 mm diam. Phyllaries 8–12 mm, outer narrowly obovate to lanceolate, apices acuminate. Ray-florets 16–25; laminae yellow, sometimes red-tinged distally, 8–10 mm. Disc corollas yellow. Cypselae 5–7 mm; pappus-scales subequal, 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 38.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat: Rocky slopes, talus, and flats, conifer forests, sometimes chaparral, on granitic and metamorphic substrates
Elevation: 1300–2500 m

Discussion

Subspecies callicarpha grows in the Palomar, San Jacinto, and Santa Rosa mountains.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
connate +  and distinct +
acuminate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lanceolate +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Dieter H. Wilken +
(H. M. Hall) Wilken +
decurrent +
Hulsea vestita var. callicarpha +
compound +  and simple +
gray +  and grayish green +
spatulate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
winged;ribbed;winged;ribbed +
tuberculate +  and rugose +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
connate +  and distinct +
lance-oblong +  and ovate +
Beautiful hulsea +
yellow +  and orange +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
compressed +, clavate +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
mostly lanceolate +  and linear +
1300–2500 m +
densely lanate +  and woolly +
scabrellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
Rocky slopes, talus, and flats, conifer forests, sometimes chaparral, on granitic and metamorphic substrates +
in corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
red-tinged +  and yellow +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
alternate +  and whorled +
deltate +  and lanceovate +
dentate to pinnatifid or palmatifid +  and entire +
undulate +  and entire +
narrowly obovate +  and lanceolate +
2-carpellate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
persistent +
quadrate +  and spatulate +
unequal +  and subequal +
Flowering late spring–summer. +
14 +  and 35 +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
distinct +
4 +  and 20 +
laciniate +
exalbuminous +
branched +  and simple +
lanate +  and woolly +
3 +  and 10 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Hulsea callicarpha +
Hulsea vestita subsp. callicarpha +
Hulsea vestita +
subspecies +
cylindric +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br />) +
toothed +  and entire +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
80 cm800 mm <br />0.8 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +