<i>Cryptanthawhippleae</i> (Boraginaceae), a new serpentine-adapted species endemic to northern California, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT: Cryptanthawhippleae D.A.York & M.G.Simpson (Boraginaceae) is described as new. This species is currently known to occur in serpentine barrens in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest of Siskiyou County, California, with one outlier population in possible serpentine of Lake County, California. The new species is most similar to Cryptanthagrandiflora and to C.milobakeri, these three likely each others' closest relatives. All three have a relatively large corolla limb width and similar smooth, lance-ovate to ovate, marginally rounded, acuminate and abaxially transversely flattened nutlets. Cryptanthawhippleae differs from C.grandiflora in having a short, as opposed to a tall, stem height; bifurcate as opposed to trifurcate primary axis cymules; and typically 2-

SUBMITTER: Simpson MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496836 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature