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Streptanthus drepanoides
Kruckeb. & J.L. Morrison
No occurrences found
Family:
Brassicaceae
sicklefruit jewelflower
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FNA
Resources
Ihsan A. Al-Shehbaz in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals;
(glaucous), usually glabrous, (sometimes sepals pubescent).
Stems
unbranched or divaricately branched basally, 0.4-3.5(-4.5) dm.
Basal leaves
(soon withered); not rosulate; subsessile or shortly petiolate; blade orbicular, similar to cauline, margins with blunt teeth.
Cauline leaves:
blade (succulent), orbicular or orbicular-ovate, 1.3-9 cm × 10-75 mm (smaller distally), base auriculate-cordate, strongly overlapping, margins entire or shallowly dentate.
Racemes
ebracteate, (dense).
Fruiting pedicels
divaricate-ascending, (straight), 1.5-4 mm.
Flowers:
calyx urceolate; sepals greenish yellow, (ovate), 5-7 mm, keeled, (apex reflexed, glabrous or pilose); petals ochroleucous (with brownish purple veins), 7-10 mm, blade 2-3 × 1-1.5 mm, margins crisped, claw 5-7 mm, wider than blade, (apex recurved); stamens in 3 unequal pairs; filaments: abaxial pair (connate to middle), 5-6 mm, lateral pair 3-4 mm, adaxial pair (connate to apex), 8-10 mm; anthers: abaxial and lateral pairs fertile, 1.8-2.5 mm, adaxial pair sterile, 0.7-1 mm; gynophore 0.5-1 mm.
Fruits
divaricate-ascending, usually smooth, rarely slightly torulose, strongly falcate, slightly flattened, 3-9 cm × 1-1.2 mm; valves each with obscure midvein; replum straight; ovules 30-50 per ovary; style 0.5-1 mm; stigma entire.
Seeds
oblong, 1-1.5 × 0.7-1 mm; wing 0-0.1 mm wide, distal.
2
n
= 28. Flowering May-Jul. Steep mobile substrate on sedimentary or volcanic slopes, usually on serpentine outcrops, openings in chaparral, pine woodland; 200-1800 m; Calif.
Streptanthus drepanoides
is distributed in Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Shasta, Tehama, and Trinity counties.
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