Eriogonum microthecum var. alpinum

Reveal

Sci. Bull. Brigham Young Univ., Biol. Ser. 13(1): 31, fig. 19. 1971.

Common names: Sonora Pass wild buckwheat
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 246. Mentioned on page 244.

Subshrubs, 0.4–1 × 1–3 dm. Stems: caudex spreading; aerial flowering-stems 0.1–0.3 dm, white or brownish-floccose to subglabrous. Leaves: blade linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.3–0.7 (–0.9) × 0.1–0.3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to subglabrous adaxially, margins usually revolute. Inflorescences 0.5–2 (–3) cm; branches floccose to subglabrous. Involucres (1.5–) 2–2.5 mm, floccose or glabrous. Flowers 1.5–2.5 mm; perianth white to pink or rose. Achenes 1.5–2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Sep.
Habitat: Sandy to gravelly granitic or volcanic slopes, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands
Elevation: 2500-3300 m

Discussion

Variety alpinum is known only from the central Sierra Nevada and the Sweetwater Range in Alpine, Mono, and Tuolumne counties. It appears to be a high-elevation expression that evolved from var. laxiflorum.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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included +  and exserted +
3-gonous +
usually red +  and cream or yellow +
oblong +  and ellipsoid or oval +
acute;obtuse or rounded +
James L. Reveal +
Reveal +
deciduous +  and persistent +
stipelike +
Undefined subg. Eucycla +
papillate +
awn-tipped +  and simple +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
floccose +  and subglabrous +
linear-oblanceolate;narrowly elliptic +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
not awn-tipped +
leaflike +  and semileaflike +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
linear +  and triangular +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
gray +, green +, reddish-tomentose to floccose or glabrate +  and brownish +
not brittle +
spreading +  and erect +
floccose +  and subglabrous +
scabrellous +
ridged +, angled +  and round +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
Sonora Pass wild buckwheat +
2500-3300 m +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
unisexual +, , +  and bisexual +
not attenuate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
brownish-floccose to subglabrous +  and white +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
not fistulose +
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 +
Sandy to gravelly granitic or volcanic slopes, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands +
reduced +
capitate +  and subcapitate +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (13 cm130 mm <br />0.13 m <br />) +
dense +  and diffuse +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br />) +
connate +  and free +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br />) +
glabrous +  and floccose +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
nonmembranous +
0.13 cm1.3 mm <br />0.0013 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
in whorls +, opposite +, alternate +  and rosulate +
persistent +
bractlike +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
lobed +, undulate +, crisped +, crenulate +  and entire +
not swollen +
orthotropous +
accrescent +
curved +  and straight +
tomentose;floccose +
erect to deflexed +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
white;pink or rose +
cylindric +  and urceolate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
with extrafloral nectaries +  and not articulate +
tomentose +  and floccose or glabrous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Flowering Jul–Sep. +
homostylous +  and 3-carpellate +
Sci. Bull. Brigham Young Univ., Biol. Ser. +
, +  and solid +
slender;stout +
persistent +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
spreading +  and erect +
glandular +, pubescent +  and glabrous +
penicillate +, fimbriate +  and capitate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
consisting of a series +  and tubular +
distinct +
erect;spreading or recurved +
spreading;erect +
chambered +  and solid +
slender +  and stout +
Eriogonum microthecum var. alpinum +
Eriogonum microthecum +
variety +
emarginate +  and entire +
0 +  and 1/2 +
1/5 +  and 2/5 +
oblong +  and obovate +
coriaceous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.17 cm1.7 mm <br />0.0017 m <br />) +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br />) +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
glabrous +, floccose +  and tannish-tomentose +
synoecious +, monocarpic +, polycarpic +  and , +
3 +, 2 +  and 1 +