View source for Chorizanthe xanti

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Chorizanthe xanti
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=12: 272. 1877
|year=1877
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Chorizanthe;Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes;Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala;Chorizanthe xanti
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chorizanthe]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Chorizanthe xanti]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 449
|treatment_page=page 463
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>erect to infrequently spreading, (0.3–)0.5–2.5(–3) × 0.5–3(–5) dm, thinly pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> basal or nearly so; petiole 1–2(–3) cm; blade oblong or oblong-ovate to ovate, 0.3–1(–1.5) × 0.3–0.8(–1) cm, thinly pubescent adaxially, densely tomentose abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> mostly flat-topped and openly branched, usually reddish; bracts persistent, 2, usually leaflike at proximal nodes and similar to proximal leaf blades only more reduced, short-petiolate, oblong-ovate to ovate, 0.3–0.8 cm × 2–6 mm, becoming sessile, reduced and scalelike at distal nodes, linear, acicular, often acerose, 0.1–0.4 cm × 0.5–1 mm, awns straight, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Involucres</b> in open clusters with 1 at node of dichotomies, reddish, cylindric, not ventricose, 3–4.5 mm, not corrugate, without scarious or membranous margins, thinly to densely pubescent; teeth spreading, unequal, 0.7–1.5 mm, 3 longer ones more erect than 3 shorter and less-prominent ones; awns uncinate, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> long-exserted; perianth rose to red, infrequently with white lobes, cylindric, 4.5–6 mm, pubescent; tepals connate ca. 2/3 their length, monomorphic to slightly dimorphic, narrowly oblanceolate, rounded apically, those of outer whorl occasionally slightly broader and longer than those of inner whorl; stamens 9, mostly included; filaments distinct, 4–6 mm, glabrous; anthers pink to red, oblong, 0.5–0.6 mm. <b>Achenes</b> brown, lenticular, 4–4.5 mm.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><div class="treatment-key">
==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucres thinly pubescent
|[[Chorizanthe xanti var. xanti|Chorizanthe xanti var. xanti]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Involucres densely white-pubescent
|[[Chorizanthe xanti var. leucotheca|Chorizanthe xanti var. leucotheca]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Chorizanthe xanti
|author=
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1877
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_968.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Chorizanthe
|subgenus=Chorizanthe subg. Amphietes
|section=Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala
|species=Chorizanthe xanti
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Chorizanthe sect. Ptelosepala]]