Crassula colligata subsp. lamprosperma

Toelken

S. Austral. Naturalist 76: 9, fig. 1H–K. 2002,.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 155.

Plants terrestrial, annual. Stems erect, reddish-brown in age, unbranched or branched, to 16 cm. Leaf-blades ovate to oblong, 4–5 mm, apex with awn or mucro. Inflorescences compact; flowers 2 per node. Pedicels 1.5+ mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals lanceolate, 1.5 mm, apex mucronate; petals lanceolate, 1.2 mm. Follicles erect or slightly recurved, 1–2-seeded, oblong-lanceoloid; old follicles ascending, boatshaped. Seeds ellipsoid, 0.3–0.5 × 0.1–0.2 mm, not papillate, shiny, smooth.


Phenology: Flowering spring.
Habitat: Sandy to loamy soils in open woodlands
Elevation: 100-200 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., Australia

Discussion

Subspecies lamprosperma was found along the San Gabriel River in southern California, possibly brought in as a seed contaminant at a nearby quarry (S. Boyd 2004).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
mucronate +
Reid V. Moran +
Toelken +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
ovate +  and oblong +
lobed +  and toothed +
triangular +  and lanceolate or oblanceolate or linear +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
not circumscissile +
not circumscissile +
Calif. +  and Australia +
100-200 m +
ascending +, recurved +  and erect +
boat-shaped +  and oblong-lanceoloid +
ascending;erect +
Sandy to loamy soils in open woodlands +
axillary +  and terminal +
deciduous +  and persistent +
semi-inferior +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
distinct +
recurved +  and spreading +
lanceolate +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (?) +
Flowering spring. +
(3-)4-5(-12)[-30+]-carpellate +
spreading +  and erect +
S. Austral. Naturalist +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +
not papillate +
ellipsoid +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (?) +
lanceolate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
1 +  and many +
adnate +  and free +
antipetalous +
branched +  and unbranched +
reddish-brown +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (16 cm160 mm <br />0.16 m <br />) +
succulent +
distinct +
2+ times shorter than ovary +
Crassula colligata subsp. lamprosperma +
Crassula colligata +
subspecies +
not conspicuous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +