View source for Mentzelia conspicua

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mentzelia conspicua
|accepted_authority=Todsen
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sida
|place=18: 819, fig. 1. 1999
|year=1999
}}
|common_names=Remarkable blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia conspicua
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Bartonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia conspicua]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 501, 516
|treatment_page=page 515
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>biennial, candelabra-form. <b>Stems</b> solitary, erect, straight; branches distal, distal longest, antrorse, straight; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 69–195 × 11.6–55.7 mm, widest intersinus distance 1.3–2.5(–3.5) mm; proximal oblanceolate or elliptic, margins pinnatisect, lobes 16–26, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 5.1–15.1 mm; distal elliptic, base not clasping, margins pinnatisect, lobes 10–20, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 6.2–12.3(–22.5) mm; abaxial surface with needlelike and occasionally simple grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 30–42.2 × 5.7–10.8 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 27–37.4 × 4.8–9.7 mm, without anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 24–32.4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cylindric, 15–26 × 5–7.2 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls sinuous, papillae 8–12 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Slopes, pinyon pine and juniper woodlands, grasslands, sparsely vegetated soils composed of red and brown loam.
|elevation=1800–2400 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia conspicua</i> is known from Rio Arriba, Sandoval, and Torrance counties.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mentzelia conspicua
|author=
|authority=Todsen
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Slopes, pinyon pine and juniper woodlands, grasslands, sparsely vegetated soils composed of red and brown loam.
|elevation=1800–2400 m.
|distribution=N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sida
|publication year=1999
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_179.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia conspicua
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