View source for Mentzelia shultziorum

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|accepted_name=Mentzelia shultziorum
|accepted_authority=Prigge
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Great Basin Naturalist
|place=46: 361, figs. 1, 3, 4. 1986
|year=1986
}}
|common_names=Shultz’s blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia shultziorum
|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 shultziorum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 501
|treatment_page=page 513
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices. <b>Stems</b> multiple, erect or decumbent, zigzag; branches along entire stem, distal longest, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 13.6–33.3 × 7.2–18.5 mm, widest intersinus distance 6.2–14.8 mm; proximal elliptic, margins dentate, teeth 4–6, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.5–0.6 × 1.2–1.5 mm; distal oblanceolate to elliptic, base usually not clasping, rarely clasping, margins dentate to serrate, teeth 4–8, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.6–2.5 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and complex grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire or slightly toothed. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 7.7–14.8 × 2.7–5.9 mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, strongly clawed, 6–11 × 1.9–5.2 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 5.4–9.7 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped, 4.2–8 × 4.9–7.6 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–6 per cell.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Steep, barren slopes of white, green, and red clayey soils.
|elevation=1200–1600 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia shultziorum</i> occurs only on outcrops above Onion Creek and at the head of Castle Valley in Grand County.</p>
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name=Mentzelia shultziorum
|authority=Prigge
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Sep.
|habitat=Steep, barren slopes of white, green, and red clayey soils.
|elevation=1200–1600 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication year=1986
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_755.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia shultziorum
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