View source for Mentzelia cronquistii

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|accepted_name=Mentzelia cronquistii
|accepted_authority=H. J. Thompson & Prigge
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Great Basin Naturalist
|place=46: 550, figs. 2, 3A,B, 4A. 1986
|year=1986
}}
|common_names=Cronquist’s blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mentzelia marginata var. cronquistii
|authority=(H. J. Thompson & Prigge) N. H. Holmgren & P. K. Holmgren
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Nuttallia cronquistii
|authority=(H. J. Thompson & Prigge) W. A. Weber
}}
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia cronquistii
|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 cronquistii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 499
|treatment_page=page 506
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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 or along entire stem, proximal longer than distal, all usually extending to near the distal end of plant, antrorse, straight; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 21–101 × 4–10.7(–19.3) mm, widest intersinus distance 1.8–7.3(–12.6) mm; proximal oblanceolate, lanceolate, or elliptic, margins dentate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 8–28, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.2–6(–9) mm, always some more than 4 mm; distal oblanceolate, elliptic, or lanceolate, base not clasping, margins dentate to pinnate, teeth or lobes 6–18, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.1–5(–6.9) mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, complex grappling-hook, and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook, needlelike, and occasionally complex grappling-hook trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire or toothed to pinnate. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 9–16.6 × 2.5–5.1 mm, apex usually rounded, rarely acute, hairy abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 7.3–13.2 × 1.8–4.3 mm, usually without, rarely with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis papillate or not; styles 6.5–10 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped, 5.9–10.6(–11.4) × 5–7.6 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls wavy, papillae 8–13 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy and rocky soils, washes, roadside banks, steep slopes.
|elevation=800–2300 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah.
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mentzelia cronquistii
|author=
|authority=H. J. Thompson & Prigge
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Mentzelia marginata var. cronquistii;Nuttallia cronquistii
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Nov.
|habitat=Sandy and rocky soils, washes, roadside banks, steep slopes.
|elevation=800–2300 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication year=1986
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_518.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia cronquistii
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