Corispermum hookeri

Mosyakin

Novon 5: 349. 1995.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 318. Mentioned on page 315.

Plants branched from base, 10–40 (–60) cm, sparsely covered with dendroid and almost stellate hairs. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, plane, 2–5 × (0.1–) 0.2–0.5 (–0.6) cm. Inflorescences usually dense, ovoid, ovate-clavate, or ovate-cylindric, rarely interrupted near base. Bracts ovate or ovatelanceolate, 0.5–1.5 (–2) × 0.3–1 cm. Perianth segment 1. Fruits usually deep olive green, brown, or rarely to almost black, usually without spots and/or warts, or occasionally spotted, strongly convex abaxially, prominently concave to almost plane adaxially, usually broadest beyond middle, (3.2–) 3.5–4.5 (–5) × 2.2–3.3 (–3.5) mm; wing (when present) semitranslucent, to 0.2 mm wide, margins entire, apex rounded or indistinctly triangular.

Distribution

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Alta., B.C., Man., N.W.T., Ont., Sask.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

The inflorescence bracts of Corispermum hookeri are conspicuously imbricate (usually strongly overlapping). Corispermum hookeri seems to be closely related to the narrow-winged taxa, C. villosum and C. ochotense, and to C. pallasii sensu stricto. The names C. orientale and C. hyssopifolium have been commonly misapplied to this species.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Inflorescences dense throughout, rarely interrupted. Fruits oblong-obovate to obovate Corispermum hookeri var. hookeri
1 Inflorescences dense only at apex, interrupted. Fruits elongate to oblong-obovate Corispermum hookeri var. pseudodeclinatu

"broadest" is not a number.

... more about "Corispermum hookeri"
orbiculate +, elliptic +, obovate +, ovate +, lenticular +, , +, concave +, plane +  and convex to almost +
verrucose +
triangular +  and rounded +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
Mosyakin +
slippery +
aromatic +
small whitish +
convolute +, flat +, filiform +, linear +, linear-lanceolate +  and lanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
persistent +  and deciduous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +  and 1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
ovatelanceolate +  and ovate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
reddish-brown +, black +, brown +  and green +
Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.W.T. +, Ont. +  and Sask. +
horseshoe--shaped +
symmetric +, or +  and uniseriate +
spotted +, brown +  and olive green +
plane +, concave to almost +, concave +  and convex +
ovate-cylindric +, ovate-clavate +  and ovoid +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
plane;linear-lanceolate;lanceolate +
0.2cm +  and 0.5cm +
wingless +  and winged +
erose-denticulate +, undulate +  and entire +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br />) +
0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br /> (0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br />) +
crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
campylotropous +
1 +  and single +
persistent +  and deciduous +
nonadherent +  and adherent +
accrescent +
papery +  and chartaceous +
not accrescent +  and small +
pointing +  and ascending +
basal +, median +  and position +
bulbous +  and taprooted +
fusiform +
fleshy +  and fibrous +
characteristic +
verrucate +  and striate +
reddish-brown +, brown +  and black +
rounded +  and flattened +
cylindric +
1 +  and 3 +
not armed +, not jointed +  and branched +
opposite +  and alternate +
ascending +  and erect +
not fleshy +
sessile +  and petiolate +
reduced;small +
horizontal +  and vertical +
verrucate +
Corispermum hookeri +
Corispermum +
species +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
polygamous +, dioecious +  and monoecious +
semitranslucent +
0mm;0.2mm +