Brodiaea coronaria
Brodiaea coronaria | |
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Crown brodiaea | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Asparagaceae |
Subfamily: | Brodiaeoideae |
Genus: | Brodiaea |
Species: |
B. coronaria
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Binomial name | |
Brodiaea coronaria |
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Subspecies | |
Brodiaea coronaria subsp. coronaria |
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Synonyms | |
Brodiaea coronaria is the type species of Brodiaea[2] and also known by the common name crown brodiaea.[3] It is native to western North America from British Columbia to northern California, where it grows in mountains and grasslands.
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Description
Brodiaea coronaria is a perennial herb growing from a corm and producing an erect inflorescence with a few basal leaves. The inflorescence is up to about 25 centimeters tall and bears lilylike flowers on an array of pedicels.
Each flower is a tube several centimeters long opening into a bell-shaped corolla of six bright purple lobes each up to 3 centimeters long. In the center are three stamens and whitish sterile stamens known as staminodes.
Taxonomy
Nomenclature
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The history of the scientific name of this species is somewhat tangled. The plant was first collected by Archibald Menzies during the Vancouver Expedition, and published as Hookera coronaria by Richard Salisbury in Paradisus Londinensis early in 1808.[4] However, Salisbury had fallen out with fellow botanist James Edward Smith. Smith first published a moss genus, Hookeria, and then published a description of Salisbury's Hookera coronaria as Brodiaea grandiflora.[5]
If it was Smith's intention to replace Salisbury's name, as has been suggested,[5] it was partly successful, since although Salisbury's Hookera coronaria has priority over Smith's Brodiaea grandiflora, names as similar as Hookera and Hookeria are considered to be confusing and a formal proposal to conserve the names Brodiaea and Hookeria over the name Hookera was accepted.[6] However, Salisbury's epithet coronaria still stands since Smith's Brodiaea grandiflora is now considered to have been an illegitimate name when published. In 1917, after the Kew Rule had vanished from botanical nomenclature, Willis Jepson formally published the combination Brodiaea coronaria, now accepted as the botanical name for this species.[1]
Synonyms
Synonyms, in full or in part, include:[7]
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- Hookera coronaria Salisb. (basionym)
- Hookera grandiflora (Sm.) Kuntze
- Brodiaea grandiflora Sm.
- Hookera rosea Greene
- Brodiaea rosea (Greene) Baker
Subspecies
There are two subspecies of this plant:
- Brodiaea coronaria subsp. coronaria – crown brodiaea[8]
- Brodiaea coronaria subsp. rosea – Indian Valley brodiaea; a rare pink-flowered subspecies endemic to a small region in the Inner North California Coast Ranges (Tehama, Glenn, and Lake Counties) in northwestern California.[9][10]
References
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- ↑ USDA Plants Profile for Brodiaea coronaria ssp. coronaria (crown brodiaea)
- ↑ Jepson Manual — Brodiaea coronaria ssp. rosea
- ↑ CalFlora Database — Brodiaea coronaria ssp. rosea. accessed 8.2.2013
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External links
- Media related to Brodiaea coronaria at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Brodiaea coronaria at Wikispecies
- Works related to Characters of a new Liliaceous Genus called Brodiaea at Wikisource
- Jepson Manual Treatment — Brodiaea coronaria
- CalFlora Database: Brodiaea coronaria (harvest brodiaea, crown brodiaea, early harvest brodiaea)
- USDA Plants Profile for Brodiaea coronaria (crown brodiaea)
- Brodiaea coronaria - U.C. Photos gallery
- Articles incorporating Cite DNB template
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- Brodiaea
- Flora of British Columbia
- Flora of California
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Washington (state)
- Flora of the Cascade Range
- Flora of the Klamath Mountains
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
- Plants described in 1808