View source for Frasera albicaulis var. nitida

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|accepted_name=Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
|accepted_authority=(Bentham) C. L. Hitchcock in C. L. Hitchcock et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N.W.
|place=4: 60. 1959
|year=1959
}}
|common_names=Shining frasera
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Frasera nitida
|authority=Bentham
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pl. Hartw.,
|publication_place=322.  1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=F. albicaulis var. columbiana
|authority=(H. St. John) C. L. Hitchcock
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=F. nitida var. albida
|authority=Suksdorf
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Swertia albicaulis var. nitida
|authority=(Bentham) Jepson
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. nitida
|authority=(Bentham) Jepson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Frasera;Frasera albicaulis;Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Frasera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Frasera albicaulis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>variety</small>[[Frasera albicaulis var. nitida]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>glabrous. <b>Leaf</b> blades generally glabrous, except sometimes for puberulent sheathing bases of proximal leaves in Oregon and Washington plants. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx glabrous; corolla greenish white or pale to medium blue, generally with dark blue to purple spots; corona scales oblong-lanceolate, 1–4 mm, margins deeply 2–several-lobed, rim of differentiated area on corolla surface fringed all around, fringes shorter near distal end.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry, open woods, rocky slopes, chaparral, prairies.
|elevation=50–1900 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Variety modocensis and var. nitida intergrade in northern California.</p><!--
--><p>Plants from southeastern Washington and northeastern Oregon, treated as Frasera albicaulis var. columbiana by C. L. Hitchcock (1959), were said to be well isolated from var. nitida but scarcely separable. As variations overlap both in leaf-sheath puberulence and in the length of the corona scales, the characters by which these varieties were distinguished, these taxa are treated here as a single variety. If the plants in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington are distinguished taxonomically from var. nitida, the correct varietal epithet would be albida, based on its use in the combination F. nitida var. albida, which has priority at that rank over columbiana. As of this writing, the epithet albida has not been published at varietal rank under either Frasera or Swertia albicaulis.</p>
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name=Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
|authority=(Bentham) C. L. Hitchcock in C. L. Hitchcock et al.
|rank=variety
|parent rank=species
|synonyms=F. albicaulis var. columbiana;F. nitida var. albida;Swertia albicaulis var. nitida;S. nitida
|basionyms=Frasera nitida
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry, open woods, rocky slopes, chaparral, prairies.
|elevation=50–1900 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Vasc. Pl. Pacif. N.W.
|publication year=1959
|special status=Endemic
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|genus=Frasera
|species=Frasera albicaulis
|variety=Frasera albicaulis var. nitida
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