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Phacelia amabilis

(Saline Valley Phacelia)

Overview

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Extirpated

Threat status

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Saline Valley Phacelia

Description

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Family Boraginaceae

Herbs perennial , biennial, or annual , less often lianas, shrubs , or trees , usually bristly or scabrous-pubescent. Leaves simple , exstipulate , alternate, rarely opposite, entire or serrate at margin . Inflorescences often double scorpioid cymes, rarely solitary; bracts present or absent. Flowers bisexual , actinomorphic , rarely zygomorphic. Calyx usually 5-parted or lobed , mostly persistent . Corolla tubular , campanulate , rotate, funnelform , or salverform ; tube appendages 5, rarely more, mostly trapeziform, rarely absent, sometimes a ring of hairs present; limb usually 5-parted; lobes overlapping, rarely twisted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on corolla tube or rarely at throat , included or rarely exserted; anthers introrse , 2-loculed, usually dorsifixed at base , less often medifixed , dehiscence longitudinal . Nectaries at base of corolla tube or on disc below ovary. Ovary superior, 2-carpellate; locules 2 and each with 2 ovules, or 4 and each with 1 ovule; ovules nearly atropous , semianatropous, or anatropous . Style terminal or gynobasic , branched or not. Gynobase flat, fastigiate , or subulate . Fruit 1-4-seeded drupes or nutlets (mericarps) ; nutlets mostly dry, often ornamented with wings , prickles and/or glochids (stiff bristles with barbed or anchorlike tips ) . Seeds vertical or oblique , coat membranous; embryo straight, less often curved ; cotyledons flat, fleshy .

About 156 genera and 2500 species: temperate and tropical regions , centered in the Mediterranean region; 47 genera and 294 species in China, of which four genera and 156 species are endemic.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Forb/herb

Habitat

Biome: Agricultural areas, coastland, disturbed areas, natural forest , planted forests, range/grasslands, riparian zones, scrub/shrublands, urban areas, wetlands

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Constance Publication : Madro?o 7: 56, tab. 3a-e 1943

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Phacelia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 235 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. adenophora (Gland-Bearing Scorpion-Weed) · P. affinis (Limestone Phacelia) · P. alba (White Phacelia) · P. amabilis (Saline Valley Phacelia) · P. ambigua var. ambigua (Purplestem Scorpionweed) · P. anelsonii (Aven Nelson's Phacelia) · P. argentea (Sanddune Phacelia) · P. argillacea (Attwood's Phacelia) · P. arizonica (Arizona Phacelia) · P. austromontana (Southern Mountain Phacelia) · P. bakeri (Baker Phacelia) · P. barnebyana (Barbeny's Scorpion-Weed) · P. beatleyae (Beatley Phacelia) · P. bicolor (Two-Color Scorpion-Weed) · P. bipinnatifida (Fern-Leaved Phacelia) · P. bolanderi (Bolander Phacelia) · P. bombycina (Mangas Spring Phacelia) · P. brachyloba (Short-Lobe Scorpion-Weed) · P. breweri (Brewer's Phacelia) · P. caerulea (Sky-Blue Scorpion-Weed) · P. californica (California Phacelia) · P. calthifolia (Caltha-Leaved Phacelia) · P. campanularia (California Bluebells) · P. campanularia campanularia (Desertbells) · P. campanularia vasiformis (Desertbells) · P. campanularia subsp. vasiformis (Desertbells) · P. capitata (Clustered Phacelia) · P. cephalotes (Scorpion-Weed) · P. cicutaria (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria hispida (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria var. cicutaria (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria var. cicutaria Greene (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria var. hispida (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria var. hubbyi (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. cicutaria var. hubbyi (J.F.Macbr.) J.T.Howell (Caterpillar Phacelia) · P. ciliata (Great Valley Phacelia) · P. ciliata var. ciliata (Great Valley Scorpion-Weed) · P. ciliata var. opaca (Great Valley Phacelia) · P. congdonii (Congdon's Phacelia) · P. congesta (Blue Curls) · P. constancei (Constance's Phacelia) · P. cookei (Cooke's Phacelia) · P. corymbosa (Serpentine Phacelia) · P. covillei (Buttercup Scorpion-Weed) · P. crenulata (Caterpillarweed) · P. crenulata var. ambigua (Purplestem Phacelia) · P. crenulata var. ambigua (M.E.Jones) J.F.Macbr. (Caterpillarweed) · P. crenulata var. angustifolia (Cleftleaf Scorpion-Weed) · P. crenulata var. angustifolia Atwood (Cleftleaf Phacelia) · P. crenulata var. corrugata (Cleftleaf Wildheiotrope) · P. crenulata var. corrugata (A.Nelson) Brand (Wavy-Leaf Scorpion-Weed) · P. crenulata var. crenulata (Cleftleaf Wild Heliotrope) · P. crenulata var. crenulata Torr. ex S.Watson (Cleftleaf Wild Heliotrope) · P. crenulata var. minutiflora (Smallflower Scorpion-Weed) · P. crenulata var. minutiflora (J. Voss) Jeps. (Cleftleaf Wildheliotrope) · P. cronquistiana (Cronquist's Phacelia) · P. cryptantha (Hidden-Flower Scorpion-Weed) · P. curvipes (Washoe Phacelia) · P. dalesiana (Scott Mountain Phacelia) · P. davidsonii (Davidson's Phacelia) · P. demissa (Intermountain Phacelia) · P. demissa var. demissa (Intermountain Scorpion-Weed) · P. demissa var. minor (Intermountain Phacelia) · P. denticulata (Rocky Mountain Phacelia) · P. distans (Common Phacelia) · P. divaricata (Divaricate Phacelia) · P. douglasii (Douglas' Phacelia) · P. douglasii var. douglasii (Douglas' Phacelia) · P. douglasii var. petrophila (Rockloving Phacelia) · P. dubia (Smallflower Phacelia) · P. dubia var. dubia (Smallflower Phacelia) · P. dubia var. georgiana (Smallflower Phacelia) · P. dubia var. interior (Interior Phacelia) · P. egena (Kaweah River Phacelia) · P. eisenii (Eisen's Phacelia) · P. exilis (Transverse Range Phacelia) · P. filiformis (Narrow Phacelia) · P. fimbriata (Fringed Phacelia) · P. floribunda (Southern Island Phacelia) · P. formosula (North Park Phacelia) · P. franklinii (Franklin's Phacelia) · P. fremontii (Fremont Phacelia) · P. geraniifolia (Geraniumleaf Phacelia) · P. gilioides (Brand's Phacelia) · P. glaberrima (Reese River Phacelia) · P. glabra (Smooth Phacelia) · P. glandulifera (Sticky Phacelia) · P. glandulosa (Glandular Phacelia) · P. glandulosa var. deserta (Glandular Phacelia) · P. glandulosa var. glandulosa (Glandular Phacelia) · P. glechomifolia (Pennyroyal Leaf Phacelia) · P. grandiflora (Large-Flowered Phacelia) · P. greenei (Scott Valley Phacelia) · P. grisea (Santa Lucia Phacelia) · P. gymnoclada (Nakedstem Phacelia) · P. hastata (Silver-Leaf Scorpion-Weed) · P. hastata var. charlestonensis (Charleston Phacelia) · P. hastata var. compacta (Timberline Phacelia) · P. hastata var. dasyphylla (Spearshaped Phacelia) · P. heterophylla (Variable-Leaf Scorpion-Weed)

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Data Sources

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Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Gelin Zhu, Harald Riedl & Rudolf V. Kamelin "Boraginaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 329. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/15/2012