Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Xanthoxalis californica Abrams, Bull. Torrey Club 34 : 264. 1907. Stems erect or decumbent, 1-4 dm. tall, with scattered, appressed or lax hairs, or nearly glabrous in age, tufted on long-fusiform woody roots; leaflets bright-green, the blades 7-16 mm. broad, with scattered hairs on both surfaces and ciliate ; peduncles much longer than the petioles ; pedicels strigillose, relatively long and often conspicuously elongate and refracted in fruit ; sepals 5-6.5 mm. long at maturity, usually purple-margined and purple-tipped; petals orange-yellow or purple-tinged, 9-13 mm. long; longer filaments glabrous ; capsules columnar, very stout, 11-16 mm. long, minutely pubescent, rather abruptly narrowed at the apex.
Type locality : Onofre Mountains, San Diego County, California. Distribution : Southern California, Lower California, and Santa Catalina Island.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
