Drymocallis gracilis Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Rosaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Drymocallis gracilis Rydb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A tall and slender, glandular pubescent perennial with a more or less cespitose caudex. Stem about 6 dm. high, glandularpilose throughout, branched above: basal and lower stem-leaves pinnately 7—9-foliolate, 1—3 dm. long: leaflets obovate to flabelliform, 1—5 cm. long, coarsely incised, except at the bases, sparingly pubescent on both surfaces: upper stem-leaves 3—5-foliolate, subsessile: pedicels slender, .5-4 cm. long, very glandular: hypanthium and calyx glandular: bractlets linear, about half as long as the lanceolate acuminate sepals; these in fruit often 8 mm. long: petals white, small, broadly obovate, scarcely exceeding the sepals: stamens, 20—25: style slightly fusiform.

  • Discussion

    This species resembles most D. glandulosa incisa in habit and leaf-form ; but differs in the white petals, more acuminate sepals and the denser glandular pubescence. The type was collected at an altitude of about 1600 m.

  • Distribution

    California: Pine Ridge, Fresno County, 1900, Hall & Chandler, 138.

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