View source for Cicendia quadrangularis

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|accepted_name=Cicendia quadrangularis
|accepted_authority=(Dombey ex Lamarck) Grisebach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Sp. Gent.,
|place=157. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|common_names=Timwort;American or square cicendia;tiny yellow gentian
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gentiana quadrangularis
|authority=Dombey ex Lamarck in J. Lamarck et al.
|rank=species
|publication_title=Encycl.
|publication_place=2: 645.  1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Microcala quadrangularis
|authority=(Dombey ex Lamarck) Grisebach
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Cicendia;Cicendia quadrangularis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cicendia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cicendia quadrangularis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>1–9 cm. <b>Stem</b> 1, branching at various levels in larger plants. <b>Leaves</b> basal often withered at flowering time, cauline spreading; basal blades spatulate-obovate to oblanceolate or elliptic-oblong, 3–15 × 1–3 mm; cauline blades narrowly elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, 3.5–7 × 0.5–2 mm, base connate-sheathing 0.5 mm, apex obtuse to subacute. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–5-flowered; pedicels 3–60 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx hemispheric, 2–7 mm, much exceeding corolla tube in diam., outer lobes proximally rhombic, distal portion triangular, apex acute, inner lobes proximally oblong, distal portion with strongly invaginated flanges, abruptly narrowed into ovate-triangular, cucullate, acuminate apex; corolla 3–10 mm, lobes ovate-triangular to ovate-elliptic, 1–4 mm, apex rounded or abruptly acute. <b>2n</b> = 26.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Grassy places, edges of vernal pools, other open habitats.
|elevation=0–2700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;South America;introduced in Australia.
|discussion=<p>In the latter part of the life of the flower, the stamens of Cicendia quadrangularis arch over toward the stigmas, permitting self-pollination if outbreeding has not already occurred. The corollas close at night and in cloudy weather.</p>
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name=Cicendia quadrangularis
|authority=(Dombey ex Lamarck) Grisebach
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Microcala quadrangularis
|basionyms=Gentiana quadrangularis
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Grassy places, edges of vernal pools, other open habitats.
|elevation=0–2700 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;South America;introduced in Australia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gen. Sp. Gent.,
|publication year=1838
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=
|genus=Cicendia
|species=Cicendia quadrangularis
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