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|accepted_name=Chorizanthe ventricosa
|accepted_authority=Goodman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=2: 193, figs. 1, 2. 1939
|year=1939
}}
|common_names=Priest Valley spineflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chorizanthe palmeri var. ventricosa
|authority=(Goodman) Munz
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Chorizanthe;Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes;Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala;Chorizanthe ventricosa
|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>[[Chorizanthe]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chorizanthe ventricosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 448
|treatment_page=page 458
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>spreading and diffuse, (0.5–)1–5 × 1–5(–7) dm, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole 0.3–1(–1.5) cm; blade oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–3(–4) × (0.2–)0.4–1(–1.2) cm, thinly pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> with involucres in open clusters 2–6 cm diam., greenish or reddish; bracts 2–3 at proximal node, usually leaflike, often with whorl of sessile bracts about midstem, oblanceolate to elliptic, 0.5–1.5 cm × 1–4 mm, gradually becoming reduced, linear-lanceolate, 0.4–1.2(–1.5) cm × 1.5–5 mm, at distal nodes scalelike, linear and aciculate, acerose, awns straight, 1–3 mm. <b>Involucres</b> 3–10+, greenish or reddish, urceolate, strongly ventricose basally, 4–4.5 mm, without scarious or membranous margins, corrugate, thinly pubescent; teeth spreading, unequal, 1–3 mm; awns straight or uncinate with longer anterior one straight, mostly 2 mm, others uncinate, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> exserted; perianth bicolored with floral tube white to greenish yellow and tepals red to maroon, cylindric, 4–4.5 mm, sparsely pubescent; tepals connate 1/2 their length, dimorphic, oblong, those of outer whorl spreading and recurved, slightly longer than those of inner whorl, broadly obcordate, slightly erose or at least wavy and rounded apically, those of inner whorl erect, narrower, fimbriate and truncate or somewhat 2-lobed apically, erect; stamens 9, exserted; filaments distinct, 3.5–4 mm, glabrous; anthers pink to red or maroon, oblong, 1–1.3 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, globose-lenticular, 3–3.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 40, 42, 44.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Serpentine outcrops, mixed grassland communities, oak-pine woodlands
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Chorizanthe ventricosa</i> is restricted to isolated outcrops of serpentine in the coastal mountain ranges of southeastern Monterey County and southern San Benito County south in western Fresno County to the Parkfield Grade area and in Cottonwood Pass of San Luis Obispo County.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Chorizanthe ventricosa
|author=
|authority=Goodman
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Chorizanthe palmeri var. ventricosa
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Serpentine outcrops, mixed grassland communities, oak-pine woodlands
|elevation=500-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1939
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Chorizanthe
|subgenus=Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes
|section=Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala
|species=Chorizanthe ventricosa
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