Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica

(Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird

Phytologia 75: 89. 1993.

Common names: Vulcan rabbitbrush
Endemic
Basionym: Chrysothamnus vulcanicus Greene Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 80. 1904
Synonyms: Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. vulcanicus (Greene) H. M. Hall & Clements
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 75. Mentioned on page 72.

Plants 10–20 cm (branches slender). Leaves moderately crowded, green; blades 1 (–3) -nerved, linear, 30–50 × 0.5–2 mm, faces glabrous, minutely gland-dotted; distalmost about equaling arrays. Heads 6–20+ in lax (much-branched), racemiform to thyrsiform arrays. Involucres 12.5–15 mm. Phyllaries 9–13, chartaceous, apices erect (tan or greenish), attenuate. Florets 5–7; corollas yellow, 9–11 mm, tubes glabrous or proximally puberulent, throats gradually dilated, lobes 1.5–1.9 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Sandy soils, rocky slopes and sagebrush flats
Elevation: 1400–3200 m

Discussion

Variety vulcanica grows in the southern Sierra Nevada.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"fine" is not a number.

not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
attenuate +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
racemiform +  and thyrsiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Loran C. Anderson +, Roland P. Roberts +  and Kurt M. Neubig +
(Greene) G. L. Nesom & G. I. Baird +
decurrent +
Chrysothamnus vulcanicus +
1(-3)-nerved +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
linear;spatulate +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
tan +  and reddish +
subequal +
Vulcan rabbitbrush +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
narrowly ellipsoid +  and subturbinate +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1400–3200 m +
gland-dotted +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Sandy soils, rocky slopes and sagebrush flats +
cymiform +  and racemiform +
singly +, grouped +  and cluster +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.8 cm18 mm <br />0.018 m <br />) +
subcylindric +
1.25 cm12.5 mm <br />0.0125 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
sessile +  and petiolate +
erect +  and ascending or spreading +
erect;spreading or reflexed +
deltate +  and triangular +
2-carpellate +
off-white +  and brown +
persistent +
0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
herbaceous-tipped +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
ovate +  and lanceolate or elliptic +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
eglandular +  and branched +
resinous +
densely white +  and grayish +
ascending +  and erect +
lanceolate +  and subulate +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Chrysothamnus parryi subsp. vulcanicus +
Ericameria parryi var. vulcanica +
Ericameria parryi +
variety +
puberulent +  and glabrous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +