Brickellia desertorum

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Compositae

The largest family of flowering plants , the Compositae (Asteraceae), comprising about 1,100 genera and more than 20,000 species and characterized by many small flowers arranged in a head looking like a single flower and subtended by an involucre of bracts. A head may consist of both ray flowers and disk flowers, as in the sunflower, of disk flowers only, as in the burdock, or of ray flowers only, as in the dandelion.

Genus Brickellia

Annuals , perennials , subshrubs , or shrubs , (12-) 30-120(-200) cm. Stems mostly erect , often much branched (sometimes virgate , often striate ). Leaves cauline; opposite or alternate; petiolate or sessile; blades usually 3-nerved from bases , deltate, lance-elliptic, lance-linear , lanceolate, lance-ovate, lance-rhombic, linear , oblong , obovate , ovate , rhombic-ovate, spatulate , or suborbiculate, margins mostly crenate , dentate , entire, laciniate-dentate, lobed , serrate, or toothed , faces glabrous (sometimes shiny) or glandular-puberulent, strigose , or tomentose , sometimes gland-dotted. Heads usually in corymbiform , sometimes cymiform, paniculiform , or racemiform , arrays, rarely borne singly. Involucres cylindric to obconic or campanulate , 5-12 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent , (10-) 14-45(-60) in 3-7(-9) series, usually (4-) 5-6(-16) -striate or -nerved, linear or lanceolate to oblanceolate or oblong, usually unequal (usually chartaceous , sometimes herbaceous). Receptacles flat to convex , epaleate. Florets (3-) 8-45(-90) ; corollas usually white or whitish to cream, sometimes greenish, purplish or yellowish, throats mostly cylindric to narrowly funnelform (lengths 3-5 times diams.) ; styles: bases enlarged, hairy , branches narrowly clavate (± dilated distally). Cypselae narrowly prismatic , 10-ribbed, glabrous or hairy to glabrate , often gland-dotted; pappi persistent, of 10-80 usually smooth or barbellulate to barbellate , sometimes plumose or subplumose bristles in 1 series. x = 9.

Species ca. 100: North America, Mexico, Central America.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Dry hillsides, outwash slopes , canyons ; 200-1400 m [2].

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Brickellia californica desertorum (Coville) Parish Ex Hall • Brickellia californica var. desertorum (Coville) Parish Ex Hall • Coleosanthus desertorum (Coville) Coville

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Data Providers: Govaerts World Compositae Checklist A-G, IPNI, Tropicos. GCC LSID: urn :lsid:compositae.org:names:90912DA5-6DCA-4FC1-AF3B-B05CB72FE809

Last scrutiny: 11-Aug-09

Similar Species

Members of the genus Brickellia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 71 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. amplexicaulis (Ear-Leaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. var. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis B.L.Robins. var. lanceolata (Gray) B.L.Robins. (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis var. amplexicaulis (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. amplexicaulis var. lanceolata (Earleaf Brickellbush) · B. arguta (Hollyleaf Brickellbush) · B. arguta var. arguta (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. arguta var. odontolepis (Pungent Brickellbush) · B. atractyloides (Hollyleaf Brickellbush) · B. atractyloides Gray var. atractyloides Gray (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. atractyloides var. atractyloides (Spearleaf Brickellia) · B. baccharidea (Baccharis-Leaf Brickellia) · B. betonicifolia (Betony-Leaf Brickell-Bush) · B. brachyphylla (Brach Brickellbush) · B. brachyphylla var. brachyphylla (Plumed Brickellbush) · B. brachyphylla var. hinckleyi (Hinckleys Brickellia) · B. brachyphylla var. terlinguensis (Terlingua Brickellia) · B. californica (California Brickell-Bush) · B. californica var. californica (California Brickellbush) · B. californica var. jepsonii (Jepson's Brickellbush) · B. chenopodina (Chenopod Brickell-Bush) · B. conduplicata (Southwest Brickell-Bush) · B. cordifolia (Flyr's Brickell-Bush) · B. coulteri (Coulter Brickellbush) · B. cylindracea (Gravel-Bar Brickell-Bush) · B. dentata (Leafy Brickell-Bush) · B. desertorum (Desert Brickellbush) · B. eupatorioides (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides (L.) Shinners var. corymbulosa (Torr. & Gray) Shinners (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. chlorolepis (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. corymbulosa (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. eupatorioides (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. floridana (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. gracilis (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. gracillima (False Boneset) · B. eupatorioides var. texana (False Boneset) · B. floribunda (Chihuahuan Brickellbush) · B. frutescens (Rigid Brickellbush) · B. grandiflora (Mountain Brickellbush) · B. greenei (Greene Brickellbush) · B. hinckleyi var. terlinguensis (Terlingu Brickellia) · B. incana (White Brickellbush) · B. knappiana (Knapp Brickellbush) · B. laciniata (Cutleaf Brickel-Bush) · B. lemmonii (Lemmon Brickellbush) · B. lemmonii var. lemmonii (Lemmon's Brickellbush) · B. lemmonii var. wootonii (Lemmon's Brickellbush) · B. longifolia (Long Leaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. longifolia (Longleaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. multiflora (Longleaf Brickellbush) · B. longifolia var. multiflora (Kellogg) Cronq. (Gumleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla scabra (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. microphylla (Littleleaf Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. scabra (Rough Brickellbush) · B. microphylla var. watsonii (Watson's Brickellbush) · B. nelsonii (Nelson's Brickellbush) · B. nevinii (Nevin Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia (Mohave Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia linifolia (Narrow Leaf Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia var. linifolia (Narrow Leaf Brickellbush) · B. oblongifolia var. oblongifolia (Narrowleaf Brickellbush) · B. parvula (Small Brickellbush) · B. pringlei (Pringle's Brickellbush) · B. rusbyi (Stinking Brickell-Bush) · B. simplex (Sonoran Brickell-Bush) · B. venosa (Veined Brickell-Bush) · B. veronicifolia (Veronica-Leaved Brickell-Bush) · B. veronicifolia var. petrophila (Veronicaleaf Brickellbush) · B. veronicifolia var. veronicifolia (Veronicaleaf Brickellbush) · B. viejensis (Tierra Vieja Brickellbush)

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Further Reading

• American plants. .. [Descriptions, bibliographical notes, synonymy, and other information, comp. from many sources] Charles Russell Orcutt, editor. San Diego, Calif., [1907]-1910. url p. 190.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 25 1925 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 533.
• Native woody plants of the United States, their erosion-control and wildlife values. Washington, U. S. Govt. print. off., 1938. url , p. 106, p. 75.
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 46.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 179, p. 68, p. 68.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 46.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 293, p. 566.
• University of California publications in botany. Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 1902-2001. url p. 277.
• Robinson, B. L. 1917. A monograph of the genus Brickellia. Mem. Gray Herb. 1: 3-151.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 19, 2007:

• School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2658194
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Ast-23116
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13749258
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:186223-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 452088
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 36874
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDAST1H072
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: CODE5
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 25913

Footnotes

1. Randall W. Scott "Brickellia". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 460, 491, 507. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Brickellia desertorum". in Flora of North America Vol. 21 Page 492, 493, 498. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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