View source for Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum

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|accepted_name=Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum
|accepted_authority=Reveal
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sci. Bull. Brigham Young Univ., Biol. Ser.
|place=13(1): 31, fig. 19. 1971
|year=1971
}}
|common_names=Sonora Pass wild buckwheat
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Eriogonum;Eriogonum subg. Eucycla;Eriogonum microtheca;Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum
|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>[[Eriogonum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Eriogonum subg. Eucycla]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eriogonum microtheca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 244
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> 0.4–1 × 1–3 dm. <b>Stems</b>: caudex spreading; aerial flowering stems 0.1–0.3 dm, white- or brownish-floccose to subglabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: blade linear-oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 0.3–0.7(–0.9) × 0.1–0.3 cm, densely white-tomentose abaxially, floccose to subglabrous adaxially, margins usually revolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 0.5–2(–3) cm; branches floccose to subglabrous. <b>Involucres</b> (1.5–)2–2.5 mm, floccose or glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> 1.5–2.5 mm; perianth white to pink or rose. <b>Achenes</b> 1.5–2 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly granitic or volcanic slopes, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2500-3300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Variety alpinum is known only from the central Sierra <i>Nevada</i> and the Sweetwater Range in Alpine, Mono, and Tuolumne counties. It appears to be a high-elevation expression that evolved from <i></i>var.<i> laxiflorum</i>.</p>
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name=Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum
|authority=Reveal
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly granitic or volcanic slopes, subalpine and alpine conifer woodlands
|elevation=2500-3300 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sci. Bull. Brigham Young Univ., Biol. Ser.
|publication year=1971
|special status=Endemic
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Eriogonum
|subgenus=Eriogonum subg. Eucycla
|species=Eriogonum microtheca
|variety=Eriogonum microtheca var. alpinum
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