View source for Chorizanthe pungens

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|accepted_name=Chorizanthe pungens
|accepted_authority=Bentham
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=17: 419, plate 19, fig. 2. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Chorizanthe;Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes;Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala;Chorizanthe pungens
|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 pungens]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 447
|treatment_page=page 453
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>prostrate to ascending or erect, 0.5–2(–2.5) × 0.5–10 dm, grayish-villous. <b>Leaves</b> basal; petiole (0.5–)1–3(–4) cm; blade oblanceolate, (0.5–)1–5(–7) × (0.3–)0.4–0.7(–1) cm, villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> rather dense with secondary branches suppressed, grayish; bracts 2, similar to leaf blades at proximal nodes only reduced, short-petiolate, becoming linear and aciculate at distal nodes, acerose, 0.5–7 cm × 2–7 mm, awns 0.5–1.2 mm. <b>Involucres</b> 1, grayish, cylindric, often ventricose basally, 2–2.5(–3) mm, with distinct, white to pink or purple, scarious margins extending nearly full length of awn, corrugate, villous abaxially; teeth spreading, equal, 0.5–1.5 mm; awns uncinate with longer ones 2–3 mm and alternating with shorter (1–1.5 mm) ones. <b>Flowers</b> exserted; perianth bicolored with floral tube white and tepals white to rose, cylindric, 2–3.5 mm, pubescent abaxially; tepals connate less than 1/4 their length, monomorphic, obovate to oblong, acute to truncate and erose apically; stamens 9, slightly exserted; filaments distinct, 2–3 mm, glabrous; anthers cream to rose, ovate, 0.3–0.4 mm. <b>Achenes</b> dark brown, globose-lenticular, 2–2.5 mm.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Margins of involucres white (rarely pinkish), scarious; plants prostrate to slightly ascending; coastal areas and adjacent inland valleys
|[[Chorizanthe pungens var. pungens|Chorizanthe pungens var. pungens]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Margins of involucres dark pinkish to purple, scarious; plants slightly ascending to erect; coastal mountains
|[[Chorizanthe pungens var. hartwegiana|Chorizanthe pungens var. hartwegiana]]
|}
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name=Chorizanthe pungens
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1836
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Chorizanthe
|subgenus=Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes
|section=Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala
|species=Chorizanthe pungens
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