Difference between revisions of "Sisyrinchium elmeri"
Pittonia 2: 106. 1890.
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Herbs, perennial, cespitose, dark green to ashy olive when dry, to 3.2 dm, not glaucous. Stems simple, 0.6–1.7 mm wide, glabrous, margins usually entire, similar in color and texture to stem body. Leaf-blades glabrous, bases not persistent in fibrous tufts. Inflorescences borne singly; spathes green, glabrous, keels entire; outer 13–20 mm, 1–2.4 mm longer than inner, tapering evenly towards apex, margins basally connate 3.8–5.5 mm; inner with keel ± straight, hyaline margins 0.2–0.7 mm wide, apex extending as 2 rounded or broadly erose lobes, ending just proximal to or slightly exceeding green apex. Flowers: tepals deep yellow to yellowish orange with brownish veins; outer tepals 7.5–8.5 mm, apex obtuse or rounded; filaments ± distinct or connate to 1/2 their length, glabrous; ovary similar in color to foliage. Capsules dark-brown, globose to turbinate or broadly fusiform, 5–7.9 mm; pedicel recurved to spreading. Seeds hemispherical, with slight depression on one side, 1–1.2 mm, smooth. 2n = 34.
Phenology: Flowering late spring–late summer.
Habitat: Moist montane areas, bogs, edges of marshes, stream banks, meadows
Elevation: 1100–2700 m
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"/2" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.