Ivesia cryptocaulis

(Clokey) D. D. Keck

Lloydia 1: 130. 1939.

Common names: Charleston Peak ivesia
Conservation concernEndemic
Basionym: Potentilla cryptocaulis Clokey Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 37: 4, plate 1. 1938
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 9. Treatment on page 228. Mentioned on page 219, 220, 221, 223, 230, 231.

Plants green, diffusely matted. Stems prostrate to decumbent, 0.2–0.6 (–1) dm. Basal leaves tightly cylindric, 1–4 (–5) cm; sheathing base mostly not strigose abaxially; petiole 0.3–2 cm, hairs 0.5–1 mm; lateral leaflets 5–10 (–12) per side, ± overlapping, ± flabellate, 1–2.5 mm, incised to base or nearly so into 3–5 obovate to oval lobes, apex sometimes ± setose, surfaces loosely long-strigose, sparsely glandular; terminal leaflets indistinct. Cauline leaves 1 (–2); blade vestigial. Inflorescences 1–10-flowered, ± congested, 0.5–1.5 cm diam. Pedicels 3–7 (–10) mm. Flowers 6–9 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 5, lanceolate to narrowly oblong or narrowly ovate, 0.8–1.3 mm; hypanthium shallowly cupulate, ± 1 × 2–3 (–4) mm; sepals 1.5–2.3 mm, ± acute; petals yellow, oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–3.2 mm; stamens 5, filaments 0.9–1.2 mm, anthers yellow, oblong, 0.7–0.9 mm; carpels 6–10, styles 1–1.5 mm. Achenes greenish cream to light-brown, 1.4–1.8 (–2) mm, smooth, not carunculate.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Dry to moist limestone gravel, scree, or talus slopes and outcrops, subalpine conifer woodlands, alpine tundra communities
Elevation: 2500–3700 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Ivesia cryptocaulis is known only from timberline and above in the Spring Mountains of Clark County. Plants differ from all others of the genus by having slender, elongate, diffuse caudex branches that ramify through its habitat of gravel, scree, and talus. The species is here provisionally included in sect. Setosae as a diffusely matted relative of I. shockleyi (as also suggested by D. D. Keck 1938); the ecarunculate seeds and relatively straight pedicels may indicate a greater similarity to I. pygmaea in sect. Ivesia.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Ivesia cryptocaulis"
not carunculate +
0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
greenish cream +  and light-brown +
1.4mm +  and 1.8mm +
shorter than wide +  and longer +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br />) +
obtuse;rounded +
Barbara Ertter +  and James L. Reveal +
(Clokey) D. D. Keck +
compound +  and simple +
opposite +  and alternate +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
Potentilla cryptocaulis +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br />) +
narrowly oblong +  and filiform planar +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
reduced +
elongate +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
Charleston Peak ivesia +
not +  and aggregated +
2500–3700 m +
lanceolate +  and narrowly oblong or narrowly ovate +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br />) +
0.09 cm0.9 mm <br />9.0e-4 m <br /> (0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br />) +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
not +  and aggregated +
deciduous +
obliquely ovoid +  and reniform +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
loose +  and capitate +
Dry to moist limestone gravel, scree, or talus slopes and outcrops, subalpine conifer woodlands, alpine tundra communities +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
crassinucellate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
opposite +  and alternate +
winter-marcescent +
deciduous +  and persistent +
separate +  and overlapping +
, +  and distinct +
distinguishable +
lobed +  and toothed +
oval +  and obovate +
verticillate +
toothed +, unlobed +  and lobed +
inferior +  and superior +
clustered +, biseriate +  and superposed +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
0 (?) +  and 4 (?) +
free +  and distinct +
oblanceolate;spatulate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
adnate +, free +, connate +  and distinct +
not arillate +
persistent +
free +  and distinct +
erect +  and spreading +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br />) +
Conservation concern +  and Endemic +
free +  and distinct +
branched +  and simple +
reddish +, grayish +  and green +
prostrate +  and decumbent +
pendent +  and erect +
2 +  and 20 +
palmate +  and pinnate +
linear;lanceolate or elliptic +
deciduous +
distinct +
subterminal +
filiform +
rough-thickened +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
long-strigose +
Saxosae +, Ivesia sect. Saxosae +, Potentilla sect. Saxosae +, Potentilla subg. Purpusia +  and Undefined sect. Purpusia +
not fusiform +
stout;slender +
Ivesia cryptocaulis +
Ivesia sect. Setosae +
species +
inconspicuous +
stipelike +, elongate +, less flat +  and conic or turbinate +
enlarged +
plant +  and matted +
glabrate +  and sparsely densely glandular-puberulent +