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Triteleia lemmoniae

Lemmon's triteleia, Oak Creek triteleia
Leaves

10–40 cm × 2–6 mm.
Scape

8–30 cm, smooth or scabrous near base;

bracts purplish.
Flowers

perianth bright yellow to deep orange, fading to purple, 9–12 mm, tube turbinate, 2.5–3 mm, lobes ascending to slightly spreading, 7–9 mm, 2–3 times longer than tube;

stamens attached at 1 level, equal;

filaments linear, 3 mm, apical appendages absent;

anthers yellow, 2 mm;

ovary 3 times longer than stipe;

pedicel 0.7–2.5 cm.

Triteleia lemmoniae
Phenology Flowering spring–summer (late May–Aug).
Habitat Yellow pine belts, mountains
Elevation 1000–3000 m (3300–9800 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Triteleia lemmoniae is the only representative of the genus in Arizona. Molecular data suggest that it is related to T. montana, found in the Sierra Nevada of California (J. C. Pires 2000), and not to the morphologically similar T. hyacinthina (R. F. Hoover 1941).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 26, p. 345.
Parent taxa Liliaceae > Triteleia
Sibling taxa
T. bridgesii, T. clementina, T. crocea, T. dudleyi, T. grandiflora, T. hendersonii, T. hyacinthina, T. ixioides, T. laxa, T. lilacina, T. lugens, T. montana, T. peduncularis
Synonyms Brodiaea lemmoniae
Name authority (S. Watson) Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 2: 141. (1886)
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