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Mitella grandiflora

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Name

Identification
Mitella grandiflora Pursh [family SAXIFRAGACEAE ] Tellima grandiflora (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindl. [family SAXIFRAGACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Tellima grandiflora
  • Mitella grandiflora
  • Lithophragma glabra

Flora

Entry for Tellima grandiflora (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindley [family SAXIFRAGACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 8,
Names
Tellima grandiflora (Pursh) Douglas ex Lindley [family SAXIFRAGACEAE], Bot. Reg., 14: plate 1178. 1828,
Mitella grandiflora Pursh [family SAXIFRAGACEAE], Fl. Amer. Sept., 1: 314. 1813
Tellima odorata Howell [family SAXIFRAGACEAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Elizabeth Fortson Wells
Patrick E. Elvander†
Information
Leaves: stipules sheathing, greenish, ca. 5 mm, mem-branous; petiole 3–30 cm; blade 3.5–10 cm, ultimate margins ciliate. Inflorescences 40–90 cm, densely stipitate-glandular or glandular-hispid; bracts subtending pedicels scalelike. Flowers: hypanthium campanulate to widely urceolate, 4.5–9 mm, stipitate-glandular; sepals erect, elliptic, 1–3 mm, apex acute; petals erect proximally, spreading to reflexed distally, obovate, 5–7-lobed, 3–7 mm, lobes usually linear; stamens included, 0.8–1 mm; filaments 0.5 mm; styles included, 1–1.5 mm. Capsules ovoid, 7–8 mm. Seeds 100–150, 0.8–1 mm. 2n = 14.
Phenology
Flowering Apr–Jul
Altitude range
0–2000 m
Distribution
USA AlaskaUSA Calif.USA IdahoUSA Mont.USA Oreg.USA Wash.Canada B.C.
Discussion
Tellima grandiflora is found in moist, shaded sites from Alaska and British Columbia to California south of San Francisco. It resembles species of Mitella in its finely pinnatifid petals but is distinguished from most of them by the two to three conspicuous, alternate, cauline leaves in Tellima. It is distinguished from M. caulescens by the latter’s basipetalous anthesis.

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