Alice Eastwood, 4357

Species

Plagiobothrys glyptocarpus (Piper) I.M. Johnston var. modestus I.M. Johnston

Original Distribution

U.S.A.: California: Northern Sierra Nevada Foothills (near Grass Valley, Nevada County)

Habitat

Cismontaine woodlands.

Extinction Data

1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants

Description

Annual, strigose. Stem ascending to erect, 1-5 dm; Leaves cauline, lower 4-8 mm long, Inflorescences bracted near the base; Flowers calyx 3-8 mm long; corolla 2-3 mm wide. Fruit nutlet + 2 mm long, ovoid; lateral ribs cross-ribs narrow, high + toothed, irregular, interspaces, deep; scar lateral near base, + triangular, concave

Number of Specimens at Kew

Specimen Type (Y/N)

Kew Herbcat Barcode Number

K000518070

Collector

Alice Eastwood

Collector Number

4357

Date Collected

08th May 1937

Information Sources

Hickman, J.C. (ed.) (1993). The Jepson Manual. University of California Press, Berkeley. Smith, J.P. & Berg, K. (1988). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. California Native Plant Society, Sacramento. Pp. 96. Walter, K.S. and Gillett, H.J. (eds) (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre IUCN – The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.