View source for Oxytheca watsonii

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|accepted_name=Oxytheca watsonii
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=8: 191. 1870
|year=1870
}}
|common_names=Watson’s puncturebract
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Eriogonum cuspidatum
|authority=S. Stokes
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Oxytheca;Oxytheca watsonii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Oxytheca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Oxytheca watsonii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 435
|treatment_page=page 436
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>erect to spreading, 0.5–2.5 × 0.4–4 dm. <b>Stems</b> glandular throughout. <b>Leaf</b> blades spatulate or obovate to oblanceolate, 0.7–4 × (0.1–)0.5–1.2 cm, strigose adaxially, less so abaxially, sparsely glandular on both surfaces. <b>Inflorescences</b> open to densely branched, 0.5–2 dm; bracts 1–5 × 0.5–3 mm, 3(–5) at first node and linear to ovate, otherwise distinct or basally connate and linear to triangular, ciliate and glandular; awns 1–3 mm. <b>Peduncles</b> deflexed, stout, 0.2–0.5 cm at proximal nodes, sometimes absent. <b>Involucres</b> 1.5–2 mm, typically glabrous, rarely with few scattered hairs abaxially; teeth 4; awns reddish, 2.5–3 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2–4(–7); perianth white to pink, 1–1.5 mm, strigose and sparsely glandular abaxially; tepals dimorphic, entire, those of outer whorl oval to ovate and strigose abaxially, those of inner elliptic to oval or ovate and glabrous or sometimes pubescent adaxially at base; filaments 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; anthers cream to red, oval, 0.2 mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown to maroon, 1–1.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Sandy flats and slopes, saltbush communities
|elevation=1200-2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Oxytheca watsonii</i> is an uncommon species known only from scattered locations. The name was misapplied in pre-1980 California floras to <i>Acanthoscyphus parishii </i>var.<i> goodmaniana</i>.</p>
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name=Oxytheca watsonii
|author=
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Eriogonum cuspidatum
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Oct.
|habitat=Sandy flats and slopes, saltbush communities
|elevation=1200-2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1870
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Oxytheca
|species=Oxytheca watsonii
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