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|accepted_name=Mentzelia lindleyi
|accepted_authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. N. Amer.
|place=1: 533. 1840
|year=1840
}}
|common_names=Lindley’s blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bartonia aurea
|authority=Lindley
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Trachyphytum;Mentzelia lindleyi
|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. Trachyphytum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia lindleyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 498, 531, 532, 536
|treatment_page=page 538
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>candelabra-form, 30–70 cm. <b>Basal</b> leaves persisting; petiole present or absent; blade lanceolate to linear, margins usually deeply lobed, lobes rounded. <b>Cauline</b> leaves: petiole absent; blade ovate to lanceolate, to 17 cm, margins deeply to shallowly lobed. <b>Bracts</b> green, ovate to lanceolate, 6.1–14.2 × 3.6–5.1 mm, width 1/3–2/3 length, not concealing capsule, margins 3–7-lobed. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 9–19 mm; petals orange proximally, yellow distally, obovate, 20–40 × (12–)16–33 mm, apex mucronate; stamens 20+, 12–30 mm, filaments heteromorphic, 5 outermost linear, inner filiform, unlobed; styles 15–24 mm. <b>Capsules</b> clavate, 25–40 × 4–5 mm, axillary curved to 90° at maturity, usually inconspicuously longitudinally ribbed. <b>Seeds</b> 30–40, in 2+ rows distal to mid fruit, tan, dark-mottled or not, irregularly polygonal, surface minutely tessellate under 10× magnification; recurved flap over hilum absent; seed coat cell outer periclinal wall domed, domes on seed edges less than 1/2 as tall as wide at maturity. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky, open slopes, coastal sage scrub, oak-pine woodlands.
|elevation=90–1400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Naturally occurring populations of <i>Mentzelia lindleyi</i> are limited primarily to the Coast Ranges of the San Francisco Bay area. However, commercial distribution of seeds has resulted in casual alien populations of <i>M. lindleyi</i> throughout the southwestern United States. See 68. <i>M. crocea</i> for discussion of similarities between these species.</p>
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name=Mentzelia lindleyi
|author=
|authority=Torrey & A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Bartonia aurea
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jun.
|habitat=Rocky, open slopes, coastal sage scrub, oak-pine woodlands.
|elevation=90–1400 m.
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1840
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Trachyphytum
|species=Mentzelia lindleyi
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