Chorizanthe cuspidata

S. Watson

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 379. 1882.

EndemicConservation concern
Synonyms: Chorizanthe pungens var. cuspidata (S. Watson) Parry
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 454. Mentioned on page 447, 448.

Plants decumbent to prostrate or ascending, 0.5–2 (–2.5) × 0.5–10 dm, villous. Leaves basal; petiole (0.5–) 1–3 cm; blade oblanceolate, (0.5–) 1–5 × (0.3–) 0.4–0.7 (–1) cm, villous. Inflorescences rather dense with secondary branches suppressed, greenish to reddish; bracts 2, similar to proximal leaf-blades only reduced, short-petiolate, becoming narrowly elliptic to linear-lanceolate and aciculate at distal nodes, acerose, 0.5–5 cm × 2–7 mm, awns 0.5–1.2 mm. Involucres 1, greenish, cylindric, often ventricose basally, 1–3 mm, without scarious margins or if so then white to pink, thin, and restricted to basal portions of teeth, corrugate, villous abaxially; teeth spreading, equal, 0.5–2 mm; awns uncinate or straight with longer ones 2–3 mm and anterior one mostly 2.5–3 mm, these alternating with shorter 1–1.5 (–1.7) mm ones. Flowers included to slightly exserted; perianth bicolored with floral-tube white and tepals white to rose, cylindric, 2–3 mm, pubescent abaxially; tepals connate less than 1/4 their length, monomorphic, oblong, truncate to 3-lobed and distinctly cuspidate apically; stamens 9, slightly exserted; filaments distinct, 2–3 mm, glabrous; anthers cream to rose, narrowly oblong, 0.3–0.4 mm. Achenes light-brown, globose-lenticular, 2–3 mm.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Involucral awns uncinate apically; San Francisco area Chorizanthe cuspidata var. cuspidata
1 Involucral awns straight, rarely curved or with 1 awn uncinate; Marin and Sonoma counties Chorizanthe cuspidata var. villosa

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light-brown +
globose-lenticular +
cream +  and rose +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.04 cm0.4 mm <br />4.0e-4 m <br />) +
James L. Reveal +
S. Watson +
alternating +
straight +
anterior +
uncinate +
unequal +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
alternate +  and rosulate +
stipelike +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
oblanceolate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
deciduous +
distinct +
glandular +, woolly-floccose +, tomentose +, strigose +, villous +, hirsute +  and pubescent +
scale-like +
disarticulating +, dichotomous +, branched +  and open +
erect +  and spreading +
just below the soil surface or and above the soil surface +  and spreading +
curved +  and straight +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
white +  and pink or rose maroon or purple or yellow +
included +  and slightly exserted +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
uniparous +, capitate +  and cymose +
greenish;reddish +
cymelike +, paniclelike +, racemelike +  and spikelike +
connate +  and free +
ventricose +  and cylindric +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
nonmembranous +
lanceolate +  and ovate or spatulate +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
bractlike +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
lobed +, undulate +, crisped +, crenulate +  and entire +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
erect to deflexed +
cylindric +  and campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
acerose +, becoming narrowly elliptic +  and linear-lanceolate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
not disarticulating +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
prostrate +  and erect +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Chorizanthe pungens var. cuspidata +
chambered +, , +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Chorizanthe cuspidata +
Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala +
species +
white +  and rose +
0 +  and 1/4 +
truncate +  and 3-lobed +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
coriaceous +
shallow +
unequal +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
ascending;prostrate +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +