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|accepted_name=Mentzelia candelariae
|accepted_authority=H. J. Thompson & Prigge
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=55: 281, figs. 1, 3. 1984
|year=1984
}}
|common_names=Candelaria blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia candelariae
|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 candelariae]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 501
|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, upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 26–74 × 6–19.2 mm, widest intersinus distance 4.5–11.4 mm; proximal obovate, oblanceolate, or lanceolate, margins serrate, teeth 8–14, slightly antrorse, 0.6–4.5 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins serrate, teeth 6–12, slightly antrorse, 1.3–4.1 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and occasionally needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, (6.1–)7.3–10 × 1.6–3 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost not petaloid, filaments linear to narrowly spatulate, not clawed, 4–8 × 0.7–1.5 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 3.7–7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped to cylindric, 10.4–16 × 6.6–9 mm, base tapering or rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 6–16 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated washes, steep slopes, hilltops, gravelly, clayey, and sandy soils composed of volcanic ash.
|elevation=1100–2000 m.
|distribution=Nev.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia candelariae</i> is known from Churchill, Esmeralda, Mineral, Nye, and Pershing counties.</p>
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name=Mentzelia candelariae
|author=
|authority=H. J. Thompson & Prigge
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated washes, steep slopes, hilltops, gravelly, clayey, and sandy soils composed of volcanic ash.
|elevation=1100–2000 m.
|distribution=Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1984
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia candelariae
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