Euphrasia vinacea

P. D. Sell & Yeo

Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 64: 203. 1962.

Common names: Glacier eyebright
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 501. Mentioned on page 494.

Stems branched, sometimes simple, to 8 cm; branches 1 pair, from basal cauline nodes; cauline internode lengths 1.5–5 times subtending leaves. Leaves: blade obovate to ovate or oblong, 2–6.5 mm, margins crenate to crenate-serrate, teeth 1–3 pairs, apices obtuse. Inflorescences sparsely spicate, not 4-angled, beginning at node 2 or 3 (–5); proximal internode lengths 2–3 times bracts, distal shorter than bracts; bracts green, often purple on veins abaxially and on surface adaxially, broader than leaves, obovate to ovate, length not more than 2 times width, 4–8 mm, surfaces sparsely glabrate or hirsute and hairs eglandular, teeth 3–5 pairs, as long as wide, apices acute, sometimes slightly aristate. Flowers: calyx lobes straight, apex acute; corolla white, adaxial lip sometimes lilac, 4–6 mm, lips moreorless equal. Capsules oblong to narrowly elliptic, 4–6 mm, shorter than or equal to calyx, apex retuse.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Peat, gravel, clay.
Elevation: 0–200 m.

Distribution

Man., Nfld. and Labr., N.S., Ont., Que.

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"broader" is not a number."wide" is not a number.

... more about "Euphrasia vinacea"
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
retuse +, acute +, aristate +  and obtuse +
Galina Gussarova +
P. D. Sell & Yeo +
obovate;ovate or oblong +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.65 cm6.5 mm <br />0.0065 m <br />) +
not leathery +  and fleshy +
alternate +  and subopposite +
obovate +  and ovate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
tubular +  and flattened +
not accrescent +
oblong;narrowly elliptic +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
1.5-5 times subtending leaves +
Glacier eyebright +
subrotate +, cylindric +, club--shaped +, salverform +, campanulate +  and tubular +
Man. +, Nfld. and Labr. +, N.S. +, Ont. +  and Que. +
0–200 m. +
2 +  and 1 +
indehiscent +, septicidal +, loculicidal +  and dehiscence +
Peat, gravel, clay. +
axillary +  and terminal +
deciduous +
triangular +
short-ciliate +  and glabrous +
crenate +  and crenate-serrate +
tenuinucellate +  and unitegmic +
campylotropous-like +
Flowering summer. +
Feddes Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. +
10 +  and 18 +
fusiform +
subequal +
simple +  and branched +
aerial +  and subterranean +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
not fleshy +
hirsute;glabrate +
Euphrasia vinacea +
Euphrasia +
species +
3 (?) +  and 5 (?) +