Boechera pauciflora (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz (Q3780)

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Boechera pauciflora is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Boechera
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Boechera pauciflora (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
Boechera pauciflora is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Boechera

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    taxon/id/Boechera pauciflora (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
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    Boechera pauciflora (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
    Boechera pauciflora
    (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 7: Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Nuttall) Windham & Al-Shehbaz
    arabette pauciflore (French)
    Columbia rockcress (English)
    hairy-stemmed rockcress (English)
    fuzzy suncress (English)
    1 reference
    Straley, G.B., D.V. Meidinger & G.W. Douglas. 1989-1994. The Vascular plants of British Columbia. BC. Ministry of Forests, Victoria. 4 vols.
    1 reference
    Cody, W.J. 2000. Flora of the Yukon Territory. 2nd ed. National Research Press, Ottawa. 669 pp.
    Flowering May–Jun.
    rocky soil
    sagebrush areas
    mountain shrub communities
    conifer forests
    caudex sometimes woody.
    Stems usually 1 per caudex branch, arising from center of rosette near ground surface, (1.4–) 3–11.2 dm, densely pubescent proximally, trichomes simple, 0.6–1.5 mm, mixed with stalked, 2- (or 3-) rayed ones, 0.2–0.4 mm, sparsely pubescent distally.
    Basal leaves: blade oblanceolate, 3–10 mm wide, margins usually dentate, rarely entire, sometimes ciliate, trichomes (simple or branched), to 1 mm, surfaces densely pubescent, trichomes stalked, 2–5-rayed, 0.3–0.6 mm.
    Cauline leaves: (8–) 14–60, often concealing stem proximally;
    blade auricles (1–) 3–10 mm, surfaces of distalmost leaves glabrous or sparsely pubescent.
    Fruiting pedicels horizontal to divaricate-descending, usually straight, rarely slightly recurved, 4–13 mm, pubescent, trichomes spreading, 2-rayed or 3-rayed.
    Flowers divaricate at anthesis;
    sepals pubescent;
    petals lavender to whitish, 5–8 × 1–2 mm, glabrous;
    Fruits horizontal, divaricate-descending or widely pendent, not appressed to rachis, not secund, curved, edges parallel, 5.5–10.5 cm × 1.5–2.2 mm;
    ovules 80–162 per ovary;
    style 0.05–0.5 mm.
    Seeds uniseriate, 1.4–1.8 × 1–1.4 mm;