Ribes victoris

Greene

Pittonia 1: 224. 1888 ,.

Common names: Victor’s gooseberry
Endemic
Synonyms: Grossularia greeneiana (A. Heller) Coville & Britton Grossularia victoris (Greene) Coville & Britton Ribes victoris var. minus (Janczewski) Jepson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 32. Mentioned on page 12, 29, 33.

Plants 0.5–2 m. Stems erect, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes 1–3, 5–15 mm; prickles on internodes sparse. Leaves: petiole 1.5–5 cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade round-ovate, 3–5-lobed, cleft 1/4–1/3 to midrib, 1.5–5 cm, base truncate to cordate, surfaces finely pubescent, stipitate-glandular, lobes rounded, margins with few shallow teeth, apex rounded. Inflorescences pendent, solitary flowers or 2-flowered racemes, 3–4 cm, axis pilose, stipitate-glandular. Pedicels not jointed, 3–4 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 2–3 mm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular. Flowers: hypanthium greenish white, conic, as wide as long, 3 mm (1/4–1/3 as long as sepals), stipitate-glandular; sepals not overlapping, reflexed, white, pink-tinged at base, oblong-lanceolate, 6–11 mm; petals connivent, erect, white, oblong, inrolled, 3–5 mm; nectary disc not prominent; stamens 2 times as long as petals; filaments linear, ca. 6 mm, glabrous; anthers cream, lanceolate-sagittate, 3 mm, apex mucronate; ovary densely glandular, with longer glandless bristles; styles connate to middle, 9–11 mm, glabrous. Berries palatability not known, golden yellow, globose, 8–10 mm, glandular-bristly.


Phenology: Flowering Apr.
Habitat: Wooded canyon slopes
Elevation: 0-800 m

Discussion

Ribes victoris occurs in the counties around San Francisco Bay north to Sonoma and Lake counties.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Ribes victoris"
lanceolate-sagittate +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
mucronate +  and rounded +
Nancy R. Morin +
Greene +
stipitate-glandular +  and pilose +
truncate;cordate +
not golden yellow +
glandular-bristly +
globose +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1/4 +  and 1/3 +
3-5-lobed;round-ovate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
persistent +
stipitate-glandular +  and pubescent +
lanceolate-ovate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
Victor’s gooseberry +
0-800 m +
not starchy +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Wooded canyon slopes +
greenish white +
free +  and adnate +
stipitate-glandular +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
axillary +  and terminal +
triangular +  and pentangular +
rounded +
greenish +, yellow +, purple +  and dark red +
1 +  and 3 +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
stipitate-glandular +  and pubescent +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
distinct +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
stipitate-glandular +  and pubescent +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
Flowering Apr. +
tubular +, campanulate +, cup-shaped +  and saucer--shaped +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
brown;black +
fusiform;oblong-ellipsoid or ellipsoid +
not overlapping +
pink-tinged +  and white +
oblong-lanceolate +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
distinct +, adnate +  and free +
2 times as long as petals +
antisepalous +
stipitate-glandular +  and pubescent +
differentiated +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (?) +
stipitate-glandular +  and pubescent +
Grossularia greeneiana +, Grossularia victoris +  and Ribes victoris var. minus +
Ribes victoris +
species +
shallow +