Marah horrida
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1913: 151. 1913.
Common names: Sierran manroot
Endemic
Basionym: Echinocystis horrida Congdon Erythea 7: 184. 1900
Leaf-blades deeply 5–7-lobed, 10–15 cm wide. Flowers: sepals (pistillate) filiform, 1 mm; petals 7–9 mm (pistillate) or 5–7 mm (staminate), corolla white, deeply cupulate to campanulate or campanulate-rotate; staminodia present in pistillate flowers. Capsules yellowish green to orange-yellow at maturity, short-ellipsoid to oblong, 9–15 (–20) cm, surface densely echinate, spinules rigid, 5–35 mm. Seeds 6–16 (–24), oblong to oblanceolate or ovate, flat at one end, slightly compressed, 26–32 mm.
Phenology: Flowering Feb–Apr(–May).
Habitat: Canyons, open ridges, shrubby and open areas, pine, oak, and pine-oak woodlands, stream sides, roadsides
Elevation: 300–1200(–1600) m
Discussion
Marah horrida is distributed from Los Angeles County to El Dorado County in the California Sierra Madre.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
No values specified.
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splitting +
suborbiculate;shallowly deeply palmately 5(-7)-lobed +
absent +
adnate +
Sierran manroot +
broad +
white +
deeply cupulate;campanulate or campanulate-rotate +
Calif. +
straight +
berrylike +
aculeate +
connate +
vestigial +
pistillate +
5;100 +
unisexual +
green-striped;yellowish green;orange-yellow +
dehiscent +
Canyons, open ridges, shrubby and open areas, pine, oak, and pine-oak woodlands, stream sides, roadsides +
perennial +
campanulate;cupulate +
umbellate;subumbellate +
5-7-lobed +
10cm;15cm +
alternate +
deltate;oblong-ovate or ovate +
grooved +
dentate-lobulate +
differentiated +
(2-)4(-8)-locular +
ovoid;globose +
1;4 +
erect +
greenish;greenish yellow;cream-yellow;greenish yellow;cream-yellow;white +
connate +
1/2 +
glandular-villous +
triangular;ovate or oblong-ovate +
absent +
Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew +
1913 +
tuberous +
globose;fusiform +
not arillate +
6;16 +
connate +
vestigial +
filiform +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Endemic +
several +
rigid +
connate +
absent +
absent +
annual +
trailing +
glabrous +
scabrous +
vestigial +
echinate +
Marah horrida +
Marah +
species +
absent +
not fused +
exalbuminous +
perennial +
trailing +