View source for Glossopetalon pungens

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|accepted_name=Glossopetalon pungens
|accepted_authority=Brandegee
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Gaz.
|place=27: 445. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|common_names=Dwarf greasebush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Forsellesia pungens
|authority=(Brandegee) A. Heller
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=F. pungens var. glabra
|authority=Ensign
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Glossopetalon pungens var. glabrum
|authority=(Ensign) H. St. John
}}
|hierarchy=Crossosomataceae;Glossopetalon;Glossopetalon pungens
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Crossosomataceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Glossopetalon]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Glossopetalon pungens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 13
|treatment_page=page 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>forming relatively low mounds or mats, 5–20 cm. <b>Stems</b>: branchlets usually ascending, sometimes divaricate, green to yellowish green during 1st year, soon turning yellowish brown, slender, 0.5–1 mm diam.; bark of older branches dark brown to black; tips not or weakly spinescent; glabrous or sparsely to ± densely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules absent; petiole base ± persistent, not or only slightly thickened, not darkened or glandular; blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 6–10 × 3–5 mm, margins thickened, apex acute or short-acuminate, mucronate, mucro 0.6–1.2 mm, glabrous or scabridulous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, usually flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5, ovate, 2–3 mm, slightly unequal, tips spinescent; petals 5, narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, 6–8 × 1.5–2.2 mm; stamens 10, in 2 unequal series, longer opposite sepals. <b>Follicles</b> 1(–3), ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 2.5–4 mm, moderately striate, usually sparsely puberulent, sometimes glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Crevices and ledges of limestone cliffs and outcrops
|elevation=1300–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p>Populations of <i>Glossopetalon pungens</i> in the mountains of San Bernardino County, California, tend to occur at lower elevations than do those in Clark, Lincoln, and Nye counties, <i>Nevada</i>. The California plants also have glabrous leaves (the basis of <i></i>var.<i> glabrum</i>); most of the <i>Nevada</i> plants have densely scabridulous leaves. Both glabrous and hairy plants sometimes have strongly veined leaves that appear somewhat corrugated, at least on herbarium specimens.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Glossopetalon pungens
|author=
|authority=Brandegee
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Forsellesia pungens;F. pungens var. glabra;Glossopetalon pungens var. glabrum
|basionyms=
|family=Crossosomataceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jul.
|habitat=Crevices and ledges of limestone cliffs and outcrops
|elevation=1300–2400 m
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Gaz.
|publication year=1899
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_18.xml
|genus=Glossopetalon
|species=Glossopetalon pungens
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