View source for Comandra umbellata subsp. californica

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|accepted_name=Comandra umbellata subsp. californica
|accepted_authority=(Eastwood ex Rydberg) Piehl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=22(1): 65. 1965
|year=1965
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Comandra californica
|authority=Eastwood ex Rydberg
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=C. umbellata var. californica
|authority=(Eastwood ex Rydberg) C. L. Hitchcock
}}
|hierarchy=Comandraceae;Comandra;Comandra umbellata;Comandra umbellata subsp. californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Comandraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Comandra]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Comandra umbellata]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Comandra umbellata subsp. californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 409
|treatment_page=page 411
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> 15–40 cm. <b>Rhizomes</b>: cortex blue, drying blackish. <b>Aerial</b> stems often much branched; proximal portions overwintering. <b>Leaves</b>: blade light green to bluish or grayish green, slightly paler abaxially, glaucous, broadly elliptic, ovate, lanceolate, or linear, 1.7–5.3 cm, thin, becoming ± succulent, base acute to attenuate, margins rarely revolute, apex acute, often apiculate; midrib and lateral veins apparent and somewhat protruding on abaxial surface. <b>Pedicels</b> 0–2.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> funnel-shaped to rotate; petals lanceolate, lanceolate-oblong, or ovate, 2–3.5 mm; anthers 0.6 mm. <b>Pseudodrupes</b> brown, not glaucous, subglobose, 5–7.5 mm, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Dry places, mountains, foothills, open conifer forests, oak woodlands, chaparral margins.
|elevation=300–3000 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies californica is frequent in the Sierra Nevada of California and east of the Cascade range in Oregon and Washington; it is found also on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. In Arizona, this subspecies is restricted to high elevations such as the Santa Catalina Mountains. Intergradation with subsp. pallida occurs over wide areas of Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Comandra umbellata subsp. californica
|author=
|authority=(Eastwood ex Rydberg) Piehl
|rank=subspecies
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=C. umbellata var. californica
|basionyms=Comandra californica
|family=Comandraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Dry places, mountains, foothills, open conifer forests, oak woodlands, chaparral margins.
|elevation=300–3000 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mem. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1965
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Comandra
|species=Comandra umbellata
|subspecies=Comandra umbellata subsp. californica
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