View source for Ribes montigenum

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Ribes montigenum
|accepted_authority=McClatchie
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Erythea
|place=5: 38. 1897 ,
}}
|common_names=Alpine prickly currant;mountain gooseberry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Ribes nubigenum
|authority=McClatchie
|rank=species
|publication_title=Erythea
|publication_place=2: 80. 1894,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Grossulariaceae;Ribes;Ribes montigenum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Grossulariaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ribes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ribes montigenum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 10, 11
|treatment_page=page 26
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>0.7–1.5 m. <b>Stems</b> spreading or decumbent, copiously pubescent, puberulent, and stipitate-glandular; spines at nodes 1–5, (1.5–)4–6(–10) mm; prickles on internodes sparse to dense. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 0.7–4(–5) cm, pubescent, stipitate-glandular; blade pentagonal, irregularly 5-lobed, cleft 2/3–3/4 to midrib, (0.5–)1–3.5(–4) cm, base cordate, surfaces densely pubescent or stipitate-glandular, lobes cuneate-rounded, margins irregularly serrate, toothed apex somewhat acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> pendent, 3–8(–11)-flowered racemes, 2–3 cm, axis puberulent, stipitate-glandular, flowers evenly spaced. <b>Pedicels</b> jointed, 1–4(–5) mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular; bracts lanceolate-ovate, 1.3–3 mm, puberulent, stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: hypanthium pinkish to orangish, saucer-shaped, 0.5–1.5 mm, pubescent and stipitate-glandular abaxially, glabrous adaxially; sepals separated, spreading, green to yellowish, pink, red, orange, or white, sometimes with pale yellow, scarious margins, broadly ovate to obovate, 2.5–4 mm; petals widely separated, erect, red, pinkish, or purplish, cuneate-lunate, not conspicuously revolute or inrolled, 0.9–1.5 mm; nectary disc yellowish, pinkish, or red, flat, 5-angled, covering most of ovary; stamens as long as petals; filaments linear, (0.5–)0.9–1.6 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow or cream, oblate to transversely elliptic, 0.5–0.8 mm, broader than long, apex notched; ovary sparsely to thickly, usually purplish glandular-bristly; styles connate ca. 4/5 their lengths, 1.1–1.8 mm, glabrous. <b>Berries</b> somewhat palatable, bright red, obovoid-spheric, 5–10 mm, glandular-bristly.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Exposed ridges, open woods and slopes, talus
|elevation=1300-4800 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>The lobed, yellowish, pinkish, or red nectary discs and purplish red filaments of <i>Ribes montigenum</i> are striking.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ribes montigenum
|authority=McClatchie
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Ribes nubigenum
|family=Grossulariaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Exposed ridges, open woods and slopes, talus
|elevation=1300-4800 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;Utah;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Erythea
|publication year=
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V8/V8_39.xml
|genus=Ribes
|species=Ribes montigenum
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