Difference between revisions of "Notholaena californica"

D. C. Eaton

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 10: 27. 1883.

Synonyms: Aleuritopteris cretacea (Liebmann) E. FournierCheilanthes deserti MickelChrysochosma californica (D. C. Eaton) Pichi-Sermolli
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="stem scale coloration;margin coloration;margin size or width;margin prominence;margin width;margin shape"><b>Stem </b>scales weakly bicolored, margins brown, very narrow and poorly defined, thin, ciliate-denticulate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf some measurement"><b>Leaves </b>4–20 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole coloration;petiole variability;petiole length or size;petiole shape;gland arrangement;scale arrangement;scale count"><b>Petiole </b>brown, equal to or somewhat longer than blade, rounded adaxially, bearing scattered glands and a few scales near base.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade architecture or shape;blade l w ratio;farina coloration;farina coloration;farina coloration;scale count;scale architecture or function or pubescence"><b>Blade </b>broadly pentagonal, 3-pinnate, 1–2 times longer than wide, abaxially with conspicuous white or yellow farina, scales absent, adaxially glandular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="basal pinna size;proximal pinna arrangement;proximal pinna shape;pinnule orientation;pinnule size">basal pinnae much larger than adjacent pair, strongly inequilateral, proximal basiscopic pinnules greatly enlarged.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="ultimate segment architecture;ultimate segment architecture;ultimate segment architecture;ultimate segment fusion;ultimate segment fusion"><b>Ultimate </b>segments sessile to subsessile, narrowly adnate to costae or free;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="segment margin orientation">segment margins recurved but rarely concealing sporangia.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="spore count"><b>Sporangia </b>containing 32 spores.</span><!--
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Revision as of 13:11, 27 July 2019

Stem scales weakly bicolored, margins brown, very narrow and poorly defined, thin, ciliate-denticulate. Leaves 4–20 cm. Petiole brown, equal to or somewhat longer than blade, rounded adaxially, bearing scattered glands and a few scales near base. Blade broadly pentagonal, 3-pinnate, 1–2 times longer than wide, abaxially with conspicuous white or yellow farina, scales absent, adaxially glandular; basal pinnae much larger than adjacent pair, strongly inequilateral, proximal basiscopic pinnules greatly enlarged. Ultimate segments sessile to subsessile, narrowly adnate to costae or free; segment margins recurved but rarely concealing sporangia. Sporangia containing 32 spores.

Distribution

North America, Mexico.

Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

Notholaena californica comprises two distinct chemotypes, recognizable by farina color, that are treated here as subspecies. These white and yellow forms are strikingly different in chemical composition of the farina (E. Wollenweber 1984), and they are rarely, if ever, found growing at the same locality. Gene flow between the chemotypes in the region of sympatry (southern California) is prevented because both are apogamous in this area. The recent discovery that plants of N. californica subsp. californica from Arizona are pentaploids (M. D. Windham, unpublished data) suggests that this species has a complex evolutionary history that cannot be resolved until sexually reproducing (64-spored) progenitors are found.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Farina on abaxial blade surface pale to bright yellow. Notholaena californica subsp. californica
1 Farina on abaxial blade surface white. Notholaena californica subsp. leucophylla