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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Sand Linanthus, Sanddune Linanthus
Description
Family Polemoniaceae
Herbs annual
or perennial
, rarely subshrubs
or vines
. Leaves alternate or opposite, sessile to petiolate
, simple
, pinnatifid
to palmately lobed
, or compound
. Inflorescences determinate, corymbose
, paniculate
, or capitate, or flowers solitary. Flowers (4- or) 5-merous. Calyx gamosepalous
, cylindric
to campanulate
; tube
herbaceous throughout and papery
in fruit or with herbaceous midveins separated by translucent
membranes
distended
or ruptured in fruit; lobes
often scarious
margined
. Corolla gamopetalous, actinomorphic
or zygomorphic, rotate to funnelform
or salverform
; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens inserted
at same or different levels on corolla at base
, alternate with corolla lobes, exserted to included
; filaments
equal to unequal, filiform
. Ovary superior, (2- or) 3-locular, placentation axile
; ovules 1 to many per locule. Style 1; stigma lobes (2 or) 3. Fruit a capsule. Seeds globose
, ovoid
, or fusiform
, sometimes winged
, often sticky when wet.
Nineteen genera and 320-350 species: North and South America, a few species native to temperate
Asia and Europe; one genus, Polemonium, and three species in China. Cobraea scandens Cavanilles (a perennial vine with violet campanulate corollas ca.
5 cm) and three species of Phlox, P. drummondii Hooker, P. paniculata Linnaeus, and P. subulata Linnaeus (herbs with white to red, salverform corollas and unequally inserted stamens), are cultivated in China.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Annual
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Subclass:
Asteridae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Solananae
()
- R. Dahlgren Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Ericales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789
- phlox
- Subfamily:
Polemonioideae
()
- Subfamily:
Polemonioideae
(
- Family:
Polemoniaceae
(
- Order:
Ericales
(
- Superorder:
Solananae
(
- Subclass:
Asteridae
(
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Gilia arenicola M.E.Jones
Notes
Publishing author
: Jeps. & V.L.Bailey Publication
: Fl.
Calif.
[Jepson] 3: 205 1943
Basionym
author: (M
.E.Jones)
Similar Species
Members of the genus Linanthus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 76 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
L. acicularis (Bristly Desert-Gold) · L. ambiguus (Serpentine Desert-Gold) · L. androsaceus (Common Desert-Gold) · L. arenicola (Sand Linanthus) · L. aureus (Desert Gold) · L. aureus aureus (Golden Desert Trumpets) · L. aureus decorus (Golden Desert Trumpets) · L. aureus subsp. decorus (Golden Desert Trumpets) · L. bellus (Desert Beauty) · L. bicolor (Bicolored Desert-Gold) · L. bicolor bicolor (True Babystars) · L. bicolor minimus (True Babystars) · L. bicolor subsp. minimus (True Babystars) · L. bigelovii (Bigelow Desert Trumpet) · L. bolanderi (Baker's Linanthus) · L. breviculus (Mojave Desert-Gold) · L. ciliatus (Bristlyleaf Linanthus) · L. ciliatus var. ciliatus (Whiskerbrush) · L. ciliatus var. ciliatus (Benth.) Greene (Whiskerbrush) · L. ciliatus var. neglectus (Whiskerbrush) · L. concinnus (San Gabriel Linanthus) · L. demissus (Arid Desert-Gold) · L. dianthiflorus (Fringed Desert-Gold) · L. dianthiflorus dianthiflorus (Fringed Linanthus) · L. dianthiflorus farinosus (Fringed Linanthus) · L. dianthiflorus subsp. farinosus (Fringed Linanthus) · L. dichotomus (Evening Snow) · L. dichotomus dichotomus (Evening Snow) · L. dichotomus meridianus (Evening Snow) · L. dichotomus subsp. meridianus (Eveningsnow) · L. filipes (Filiform Desert-Gold) · L. floribundus (Many-Flower Desert-Gold) · L. floribundus floribundus (Many-Flower Desert-Trumpets) · L. floribundus glabrus (Manyflower Linanthus) · L. floribundus hallii (Santa Rosa Mountains Linanthus) · L. floribundus subsp. glabrus (Manyflower Linanthus) · L. floribundus subsp. hallii (Santa Rosa Mountains Linanthus) · L. glabrus (Manyflower Linanthus) · L. grandiflorus (California Phlox) · L. harknessii (Harkness Linanthus) · L. harknessii condensatus (Harkness' Flaxflower) · L. harknessii harknessii (Harkness' Flaxflower) · L. harknessii subsp. condensatus (Harkness' Flaxflower) · L. jepsonii (Jepson's Linanthus) · L. jonesii (Jones' Desert-Gold) · L. killipii (Baldwin Lake Linanthus) · L. latisectus (Coast Range Desert-Trumpets) · L. lemmonii (Lemmon's Desert-Gold) · L. liniflorus (Flax-Flower Desert-Gold) · L. liniflorus liniflorus (Narrowflower Flaxflower) · L. liniflorus pharnaceoides (Lighthouse Flaxflower) · L. liniflorus subsp. pharnaceoides (Lighthouse Flaxflower) · L. melingii (Meling's Flaxflower) · L. minimus (True Babystars) · L. montanus (Mustang Clover) · L. nudatus (Tehachapi Desert-Gold) · L. nuttallii (Buslty Desert-Gold) · L. nuttallii howellii (Howell's Linanthus) · L. nuttallii nuttallii (Nuttall's Linanthus) · L. nuttallii pubescens (Nuttall's Deserttrumpets) · L. nuttallii tenuilobus (Nuttall Desert Trumpet) · L. nuttallii subsp. howellii (Mt. Tedoc Linanthus) · L. nuttallii subsp. pubescens (Nuttall's Deserttrumpets) · L. nuttallii subsp. tenuilobus (Nuttall Desert Trumpet) · L. oblanceolatus (Sierra Nevada Linanthus) · L. orcuttii (Orcutt's Linanthus) · L. pachyphyllus (Sierra Desert Trumpets) · L. parryae (Parry's Desert-Gold) · L. parviflorus (Common Linanthus) · L. pygmaeus (Pygmy Desert-Gold) · L. pygmaeus continentalis (Pygmy Linanthus) · L. pygmaeus pygmaeus (Pygmy Linanthus) · L. pygmaeus subsp. continentalis (Pygmy Linanthus) · L. rattanii (Ratan Linanthus) · L. septentrionalis (Northern Desert-Gold) · L. serrulatus (Madera Linanthus)
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Further Reading
- An illustrated flora of the Pacific States: Washington, Oregon, and California. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1923-[60] url p. 416, p. 423, p. 425.
- The Great Basin naturalist. 41 1981 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 42.
- Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Polemoniaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 155-160.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2654195
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-31286
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745618
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:689353-1
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 31286
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 140395-2
- Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDPLM09040
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: LIAR2
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 46672
Footnotes
- Ruizheng Fang & Dieter H. Wilkins "Polemoniaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 326. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
