Dalea confusa var. hexandra

Title

Dalea confusa var. hexandra

Author(s)

Rupert C. Barneby

Scientific Name

Dalea confusa var. hexandra Barneby

Description

23b. Dalea confusa var. hexandra Barneby

(Plate XLV)

Characters as given in the key. — Collections: 3 (ii).

Colonial in wet, sticky clay soils around ponds and along roadside ditches, ± 1940-2040 m (6500-6800 ft), local, known only from the type-station in e. Jalisco and from near Morelia, Michoacan, to be sought in low, swampy places throughout the Bajio in Guanajuato and adjoining states. — Flowering September to November. — Material: Jalisco: Ripley & Barneby 14,133, exact topotypes (CAS, DAO, MEXU, MICH, NY, US). Michoacan. Morelia: La Huerta near Morelia, Arsene 9018 (US).

Dalea confusa (Rydb.) Barneby var. hexandra Barneby, var. nov., a var. confusa floribus saepe alis destitutis 3-petalis, carinae petalis ab initio inter se liberis, leguminisque sutura dorsali subtili haud dilatato ultra stylum convexe curvato absimilis. — Jalisco: Lagos de Moreno: moist soil along roadside ditch and around shallow ponds, 6800 ft., 7 mi s.-e. of Lagos, Oct 27, 1963, Ripley & Barneby 13,335. — Holotypus, NY; isotypi, CAS, GH, K, MEXU, MICH, NY, US.