Pityopus californicus
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Pityopus californicus |
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Pityopus californicus is a plant from the family of the Ericaceae (Ericaceae) and the only species in the genus Pityopus .
description
Pityopus californicus is a chlorophyllless , myco-heterotrophic herbaceous plant . Your root system is a firm root ball, the shoot and inflorescence axis sprouting from it stands upright and is white to yellowish. The leaves are simple.
The inflorescence is one to multiple flowered, branching is possible. The flowers are four, rarely up to five, sepals are present. The crown is tubular, the petals are not overgrown. The stamens are around two-thirds as long as the anthers , the theka are horizontal, fused together and horseshoe-shaped with only one slit at the extreme end. The pen is permanent, the scar umbel-shaped.
The ovary shows parietal placentation . The fruit is berry-like, the seeds are elliptical and thick-skinned.
distribution
The species is found in the western United States at altitudes between 30 and 2000 meters.
Systematics
The genus was first described in 1914 by John Kunkel Small , but the species was not described as Monotropa californica by Alice Eastwood until 1935 . It was not until Herbert Faulkner Copeland that they were later added to the genus Pityopus .
literature
- PF Stevens et al .: Ericaceae. In: Klaus Kubitzki (Ed.): The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants - Volume VI - Flowering Plants - Dicotyledons - Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. 2004, pp. 167-168, ISBN 978-3-540-06512-8
