Hulsea vestita subsp. pygmaea

(A. Gray) Wilken

Aliso 7: 413. 1972.

Common names: Pygmy alpinegold
IllustratedEndemicConservation concern
Basionym: Hulsea vestita var. pygmaea A. Gray in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(2): 343. 1884
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 21. Treatment on page 400.

Plants 5–15 cm. Leaves: proximal blades spatulate, 1–4 cm, margins dentate to lobed, faces: abaxial densely lanate to woolly, adaxial glandular-puberulent. Heads 1. Involucres obconic to hemispheric, 15–18 mm diam. Phyllaries narrowly oblanceolate to obovate, 8–10 mm, (margins scarious) apices acuminate. Ray-florets 9–20; laminae orange to reddish orange, 7–10 mm. Disc corollas orange. Cypselae 7–9 mm; pappus-scales equal, 1.5–2 mm. 2n = 38.


Phenology: Flowering late spring–summer.
Habitat: Alpine to subalpine rocky slopes and talus, granitic or volcanic substrates
Elevation: 3000–3900 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies pygmaea grows in the San Bernardino Mountains and the southern Sierra Nevada.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
densely lanate +  and woolly +
glandular-puberulent +
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 +
(A. Gray) Wilken +
decurrent +
Hulsea vestita var. pygmaea +
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 +
Pygmy alpinegold +
yellow +  and orange +
stipitate-glandular +  and hairy +
compressed +, clavate +  and linear +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
mostly lanceolate +  and linear +
3000–3900 m +
densely lanate +  and woolly +
scabrellous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
campanulate +  and cylindric +
Alpine to subalpine rocky slopes and talus, granitic or volcanic substrates +
in corymbiform arrays +  and singly +
indeterminate +
homogamous +  and heterogamous +
each +  and sessile +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
obconic;hemispheric +
orange +  and reddish orange +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 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 +
dentate +  and lobed +
oblong-lanceolate +  and narrowly oblanceolate +
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 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
distinct +
4 +  and 20 +
laciniate +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +, Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
branched +  and simple +
lanate +  and woolly +
3 +  and 10 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
hirsutulous +  and glabrous +
papillate +
Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Bahiinae +  and Undefined (tribe Undefined) subtribe Palafoxiinae +
Hulsea vestita subsp. pygmaea +
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 />) +