Calystegia collina

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Calystegia collina
Calystegia collina subsp.  oxyphylla

Calystegia collina subsp. oxyphylla

Systematics
Asterids
Euasterids I
Order : Nightshade (Solanales)
Family : Bindweed family (Convolvulaceae)
Genre : Bindweed ( Calystegia )
Type : Calystegia collina
Scientific name
Calystegia collina
( Greene ) Brummitt

Calystegia collina is a kind ofplantfrom the genus of the bindweed ( Calystegia ) from the family of the bindweed family (Convolvulaceae). The species is endemic to California .

description

Calystegia collina is a perennial plant that forms a rhizome as a perennial organ. The plant is densely tomentose with mostly long, brown trichomes . The stems grow prostrate and not or hardly climbing and are 8 to 30 cm long. The leaf blade of the leaves is usually less than 3 cm long, with indistinct lobes kidney-shaped to clearly lobed, the leaf margin is usually wavy.

The inflorescence stalks are shorter than 6 cm and occasionally larger than the accompanying leaves. The pre-leaves standing just below the calyx and partially encompassing it are 7 to 17 mm long, 2 to 14 mm wide with entire margins and more or less oval to broadly ovate. The sepals are 8 to 13 mm long, the crown is white and 25 to 55 mm long.

distribution

The species is endemic to California and occurs there in the North Coast Ranges, the San Francisco Bay Area and the South Coast Ranges at altitudes below 600 m. It grows in open, grassy or stony locations or in open oak and pine forests, often on serpentine soils .

Systematics

There are five subspecies:

  • Calystegia collina subsp. apicum Brummitt & Namoff : It was first described in 2014 by San Benito County in California.
  • Calystegia collina subsp. collina : It occurs in northern and central California.
  • Calystegia collina subsp. oxyphylla Brummitt : It occurs in northwestern California.
  • Calystegia collina subsp. tridactylosa (Eastw.) Brummitt : It occurs in northwestern California.
  • Calystegia collina subsp. venusta Brummitt : It occurs in southwestern California.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Calystegia collina. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 19, 2017.