View source for Rhinotropis californica

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|accepted_name=Rhinotropis californica
|accepted_authority=(Nuttall) J. R. Abbott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=5: 134. 2011
|year=2011
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|common_names=California milkwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygalacalifornica nuttall
|authority=in J. Torrey and A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication_place=1: 671.  1840
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Rhinotropis;Rhinotropis californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhinotropis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhinotropis californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> sometimes suffrutescent, multi-stemmed, often forming a ground cover, 0.5–3.5 dm. <b>Stems</b> laxly erect, decumbent, or prostrate, pubescent to subglabrous, hairs incurved. <b>Leaves</b> sessile or subsessile; blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 7–50(–60) × 3–20(–26) mm, base usually rounded to acute, sometimes cuneate, apex rounded to acute, surfaces pubescent, hairs incurved. <b>Racemes</b> terminal or leaf-opposed, 1–4(–5) × 1.8–3 cm; rachis not thorn-tipped; peduncle 0–1 cm; bracts early deciduous, linear to lanceolate. <b>Pedicels</b> (2.5–)3.5–8.5 mm, sparsely pubescent or glabrous. <b>Cleistogamous</b> or semi-cleistogamous flowers often present terminally, on much reduced scale-leaved lateral branches from proximal (or distal) leaf axils, or terminally on leafy branches that are often leaf-opposed. <b>Flowers</b> usually pink, rarely white, keel distally yellow (fading white), (2.5–)9–14.5 mm, cleistogamous and semi-cleistogamous flowers mostly 2.5–5 mm, intergrading with chasmogamous flowers; sepals deciduous, elliptic, 4–6.5 mm, pubescent or glabrous; wings obovate, (7.5–)8–12 × 2.5–6 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; keel (7–)8–11 mm, sac glabrous (sometimes proximally ciliate), beak oblong, (1.2–)1.6–3 × 0.7–1 mm (mostly absent in cleistogamous flowers), usually notched or contorted abaxially, rarely subentire, pubescent. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to ovoid, 7.3–10.5 × 4.5–7 mm, in cleistogamous and semi-cleistogamous flowers 4.5–8 mm, base obtuse, rounded, or subtruncate, margins with narrow, entire or slightly erose wing, glabrous, margins sometimes ciliolate. <b>Seeds</b> 3.5–6 mm, densely pubescent; aril 1.7–4 mm, less than 1/2 length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky or clay soils, deep duff, rich soils, serpentine soils, slopes or drainages, full sun to deep shade, open habitat, chaparral, mixed evergreen forests, oak woodlands, coniferous forests.
|elevation=10–1400 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|discussion=<p>Rhinotropis californica occurs in western California and Oregon.</p><!--
--><p>Cleistogamous and semi-cleistogamous flowers can appear earlier than chasmogamous flowers. Their flowers, fruits, and seeds are similar to those of chasmogamous flowers, but typically are smaller and without the keel beak.</p>
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name=Rhinotropis californica
|authority=(Nuttall) J. R. Abbott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygalacalifornica nuttall
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Rocky or clay soils, deep duff, rich soils, serpentine soils, slopes or drainages, full sun to deep shade, open habitat, chaparral, mixed evergreen forests, oak woodlands, coniferous forests.
|elevation=10–1400 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2011
|special status=
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|genus=Rhinotropis
|species=Rhinotropis californica
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