Chrysothamnus molestus

(S. F. Blake) L. C. Anderson

Madroño 17: 222. 1964.

Common names: Arizona rabbitbrush
IllustratedEndemic
Basionym: Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. molestus S. F. Blake J. Wash. Acad. Sci. 30: 468. 1940
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 190. Mentioned on page 101, 188.

Shrubs, 8–20 cm; with woody, highly branched caudices, bark dark gray, highly fibrous with age. Stems ascending, green, ± puberulent, stipitate-glandular. Leaves erect to closely ascending; sessile; blades with ± evident midnerves, linear to narrowly elliptic, 7–20 × 0.7–1.5 mm, sulcate, sometimes apiculate, apices acute, faces moderately puberulent, uniformly stipitate-glandular. Heads in small cymiform to racemiform arrays. Involucres subcylindric, 9–11 × 2.5–3.5 mm. Phyllaries ± 20 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 strong vertical ranks, tan, often with green or dark subapical splotch, midnerves often obscure, linear or lanceolate to elliptic, 2–9 × 0.5–1.3 mm, unequal, outer ± herbaceous, inner chartaceous, strongly keeled, apices acute to rounded, tip cupped, faces of outer glabrous or puberulent. Disc-florets 5; corollas 5.5–7.5 mm, lobes 0.9–1.5 mm; style-branches 2.7–3.2 mm, appendages 1–1.7 mm. Cypselae tan, elliptic, 4.2–6 mm, mostly 5-ribbed, faces glabrous, sparsely glandular; pappi tan, 6–7.5 mm. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering late summer–fall.
Habitat: Rocky soils, mostly on limestone pinyon-juniper woodland
Elevation: 1800–2400 m

Discussion

Chrysothamnus molestus is known only from Coconino County. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Chrysothamnus molestus"
not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
distinct +
acute;rounded +
subequal +
scarious +
usually triangular +  and linear +
usually deltate +  and lanceolate +
cymiform +  and racemiform +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Lowell E. Urbatsch +, Roland P. Roberts +  and Kurt M. Neubig +
(S. F. Blake) L. C. Anderson +
decurrent +
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus var. molestus +
linear +  and narrowly elliptic +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
obovate;elliptic;obovate;elliptic;lanceolate;filiform +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
rugulose +  and muricate +
barbellulate +  and barbellate +
Arizona rabbitbrush +
not 2-lipped +  and actinomorphic +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
less flattened +  and 4-5-angled +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1800–2400 m +
resinous +
gland-dotted +
glabrous +, puberulent +  and stipitate-glandular +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Rocky soils, mostly on limestone pinyon-juniper woodland +
in condensed cymiform clusters +  and singly +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
each +  and sessile +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
subcylindric +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
erect +  and closely ascending +
erect;spreading +
triangular +  and lanceolate +
hirtellous +  and ciliate +
2mm +  and 9mm +
obscure +  and evident +
lanceolate +  and elliptic +
0.5mm +  and 1.3mm +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br />) +
Flowering late summer–fall. +
lanceolate +  and ovate or obovate +
4 +  and 5 +
styliferous +, neuter +  and pistillate +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
exalbuminous +
Illustrated +  and Endemic +
resinous +
stipitate-glandular +  and puberulent +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +  and smooth +
Vanclevea +
Chrysothamnus molestus +
Chrysothamnus +
species +
campanulate +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +