Daleae Imagines page 611 plate IX

  • Title

    Daleae Imagines page 611 plate IX

  • Creator(s)

    R. C. Barneby

  • Publisher

    The New York Botanical Garden Press

  • Description

    PLATE IX Marina maritima (Brandg.) Barneby and M. divaricata (Benth.) Barneby, both endemic to the s. half of Baja California Sur, are closely related both to each other and to M. parryi (Plate VIII), from which they differ collectively in the firm calyx-tube charged only beyond the middle of each interval with 1-3 (not a chain of small) blister-glands. Both have warty stems and bicolored flowers, the banner purple-edged or purple-eared, contrasting with a gland-sprinkled yellowish eye, and the wings and keel vertically purple-stiped along the inner edge. The relatively glabrous, precociously flowering but ultimately stiffly bushy M. divaricata has glaucescent older stems, green leaflets either hairless or thinly pilosulous, and a calyx glabrous and shining externally although ciliolate at the mouth. Its range extends on stony and sandy desert shores from Magdalena Bay (at ± 25° N) along the Atlantic coast to Cabo San Lucas and San Jose, and climbs inland on the Cape mountains into the oak-belt. The more densely pubescent M. maritima has gray or silvery-white stems and a calyx loosely hairy outside upward from the base or middle of the tube. It is a dune plant, confined to the shore or to sandy washes opening into the Gulf, and is locally plentiful in the vicinity of La Paz, with one outlying station on the Pacific coast shortly above the Cape. — Inflorescences × 1; the rest × 5. M. maritima: 1) part of stem 2) leaflets; 3) flower; 4) calyx, laid open; 5) banner, profile and ventral views; 6) wing; 7) keel; 8) androecium; 9) ovary + style. M. divaricata: 1) part of stem; 2) leaflet of two types; 3) flower + bract; 4) banner, ventral and profile views; 5) wing; 6) keel; 7) androecium; 8) fruiting calyx; 9) pod.

  • Taxonomy

    Marina maritima (Brandegee) Barneby

    Marina divaricata (Benth.) Barneby

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