View source for Glossopetalon clokeyi

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|accepted_name=Glossopetalon clokeyi
|accepted_authority=(Ensign) H. St. John
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|place=55: 112. 1942
|year=1942
}}
|common_names=Clokey’s greasebush
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Forsellesia clokeyi
|authority=Ensign
|rank=species
|publication_title=Amer. Midl. Naturalist
|publication_place=27: 504, fig. 2. 1942
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Crossosomataceae;Glossopetalon;Glossopetalon clokeyi
|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 clokeyi]]</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, (10–)15–25 cm. <b>Stems</b>: branchlets ascending, green to yellowish green during 1st (and sometimes 2d) year(s), eventually turning yellowish brown, very slender, less than 0.5 mm diam.; bark of older branches pale yellow to gray; tips sharply pointed, flexible, not or only weakly spinescent; glabrous or sparsely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules triangular to narrowly triangular or filiform, 0.2–0.5 mm, fused basal portion not or only slightly thickened, not darkened or glandular, free tips minute; blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate, 4–6 × 1–1.5 mm, margins not thickened, apex short-acuminate to sharply acute, usually non-mucronate, sometimes mucronate, mucro 0.1–0.4 mm, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> appearing axillary, usually flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 3–5, obovate, 1.2–1.5 mm, often slightly unequal, blunt to sharply acute, tips not spinescent; petals 3–5 (in different flowers on same plant), oblanceolate, 2–4 × 0.4–1 mm; stamens 4–6, in 1 equal series. <b>Follicles</b> 1, broadly ovoid, 3–4 mm, moderately striate, glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Crevices and ledges of limestone cliffs
|elevation=2100–3000 m
|distribution=Nev.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Glossopetalon clokeyi</i> is known from the Spring (Charleston) Mountains in Clark County, where it occurs mostly at relatively inaccessible sites high on cliffs.</p>
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name=Glossopetalon clokeyi
|authority=(Ensign) H. St. John
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Forsellesia clokeyi
|family=Crossosomataceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Crevices and ledges of limestone cliffs
|elevation=2100–3000 m
|distribution=Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
|publication year=1942
|special status=Conservation concern;Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_17.xml
|genus=Glossopetalon
|species=Glossopetalon clokeyi
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