Androstephium breviflorum
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Androstephium breviflorum is a species of flowering plant known by the common names pink funnel lily and small flowered androstephium.
Distribution
This monocot plant is native to the deserts of the Western United States from Wyoming and New Mexico west through the Great Basin and Sonoran Desert, to creosote bush scrub in the Mojave Desert of eastern California.
It grows at elevations of {{convert|100|-|1600|m|ft}} in sandy to rocky soil of open desert scrub.
Description
Androstephium breviflorum is a perennial herb growing from a spherical corm.
Its inflorescence is a peduncle up to 30 centimeters tall containing up to 12 white to light lavender funnel-shaped flowers each one or two centimeters long. The bloom period is March to June.
The fruit is a 3-lobed capsule just over a centimeter long.
History
Androstephium breviflorum was published as a new species by Sereno Watson in 1873,Watson, S. 1873. New plants of northern Arizona and the region adjacent. Amer. Naturalist 7 (see page 300). Available through the [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127615 Biodiversity Heritage Library] based on material collected by Ellen Powell Thompson in 1872 in the vicinity of Kanab, Utah, during the US Topographical and Geological Survey of the Colorado River (led by John Wesley Powell). Her specimen, the holotype, resides in the United States National Herbarium (US).
References
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External links
- [http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Androstephium+breviflorum Calflora Database: Androstephium breviflorum (Pink funnel lily, Small flowered androstephium)]
- [https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=13330 Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Androstephium breviflorum]
- [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ANBR4 USDA Plants Profile for Androstephium breviflorum (pink funnel lily)]
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=242101420 Flora of North America]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Androstephium+breviflorum UC CalPhotos gallery]
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Category:Flora of the Southwestern United States
Category:Flora of the California desert regions
Category:Flora of the Great Basin
Category:Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Category:Endemic flora of the United States
Category:Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Category:Plants described in 1873