Marah watsonii
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 36. 1910.
Common names: Taw manroot
Endemic
Basionym: Echinocystis watsonii Cogniaux in A. L. P. P. de Candolle and C. de Candolle, Monogr. Phan. 3: 819. 1881
Leaf-blades deeply 5-lobed, 3–8 cm wide, surfaces glaucous abaxially. Flowers: sepals (pistillate) linear-subulate, 1 mm; petals 4–5 mm (pistillate) or 2.5–3 mm (staminate), corolla white, deeply cupulate to campanulate; staminodia present in pistillate flowers. Capsules often striped dark green, globose or depressed-globose to short-ellipsoid, 2–3.5 cm, surface smooth to sparsely echinate or muriculate, spinules weak, 1–2 mm. Seeds 1–4, globose, not compressed, 11–14 mm.
Phenology: Flowering Mar–May(–Jun).
Habitat: Oak and pine-oak grasslands, oak woodlands, yellow pine woodlands, chaparral, rocky slopes and outcrops, roadsides
Elevation: 100–800(–1300) m
Discussion
Marah watsonii is distributed in about 15 counties in north-central California.
Selected References
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Lower Taxa
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No values specified.
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splitting +
suborbiculate;shallowly deeply palmately 5(-7)-lobed +
absent +
adnate +
Taw manroot +
broad +
white +
deeply cupulate;campanulate +
Calif. +
straight +
berrylike +
aculeate +
connate +
vestigial +
pistillate +
5;100 +
unisexual +
green-striped;yellowish green;orange-yellow +
dehiscent +
Oak and pine-oak grasslands, oak woodlands, yellow pine woodlands, chaparral, rocky slopes and outcrops, roadsides +
perennial +
campanulate;cupulate +
umbellate;subumbellate +
5-lobed +
3cm;8cm +
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 +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. +
1910 +
tuberous +
globose;fusiform +
not arillate +
1;4 +
connate +
vestigial +
linear-subulate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
Endemic +
several +
weak +
connate +
absent +
absent +
annual +
trailing +
glabrous +
scabrous +
vestigial +
glaucous +
muriculate +
Marah watsonii +
Marah +
species +
absent +
not fused +
exalbuminous +
perennial +
trailing +