Narratives – The Barneby Catalogue

Dalea urceolata var. urceolata

29a. Dalea urceolata Greene var. urceolata

(Plate XLIX)

Stems either erect and simple, branched distally, or several from near base of primary axis, then incurved-ascending; leaflets (3) 5-14 pairs, usually flat and not thick-textured; petals 3; stamens 7-10.— Collections: 7 (o).

Xeric pine-forest, 2050-2550 m (± 6800-8500 ft), rare and seldom collected, e. slope of Sierra Madre Occidental in s. and centr. Chihuahua; headwaters of Gila River in s.-w. New Mexico, n.-w. along the Mogollon mountain system to s. Coconino County, Arizona. — Flowering August to October. —Material: Arizona. Coconino: Flagstaff, C. B. Caster (US); Gila: Hilltop [= Hillcamp] on San Carlos Res., Harrison 4895 (US). New Mexico. Catron [formerly part of Socorro]: type of D. urceolata; Mimbres R. S., Eggleston 16373 (GH). Chihuahua. Madera: Chuichupa, type of D. inflata; LeSueur 701 (ARIZ, F, OKLA); Hidalgo del Parral: Colonia Garcia, type of Parosela barberi.

Dalea urceolata Greene var. urceolata. D. urceolata (urn-shaped, of the inflated fruiting calyx) Greene, Leafl. Bot. Obs. 1: 199. 1905.— "Type specimens from the Mogollon Mountains, N. Mex., 20 Aug., 1903, by Mr. Metcalfe...n. 553." — Holotypus, ND! isotypi, BM, F, GH, MEXU, NY (2 sheets), US!— Parosela urceolata (Greene) A. Hell., Muhlenbergia 6: 96. 1910.

Dalea inflata (blown up, of the calyx) Jones, Contrib. West. Bot. 12: 7. 1908.— "Round Valley and Meadow Valley near Chuichupa, Chihuahua, in the Sierra Madre Mts., 7000 ft...Sept., 1903." — Lectotypus, collected at 7000 ft in Round Valley, 17 Sept 1903, Jones s. n., POM (2 sheets)! paratypus, collected the same day in Meadow Valley, POM!

Parosela barberi (Charles Melvin Barber, 1876- ) Rose ex Rydb., N. Amer. Fl. 24: 74. 1920 ("Barberi"). — "Type collected in the Sierra Madre near Colonia Garcia, August 22, 1899, Townsend & Barber 275" — Holotypus, so labelled, US! isotypi, MICH, NY (2 sheets), Z! —Dalea barberi (Rose ex Rydb.) Bullock, Kew Bull. 1939: 194. 1939.

References: [Article] Barneby, Rupert C. 1977. Daleae Imagines, an illustrated revision of Errazurizia Philippi, Psorothamnus Rydberg, Marine Liebmann, and Dalea Lucanus emen. Barneby, including all species of Leguminosae tribe Amorpheae Borissova ever referred to Dalea. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 27: 1-892.

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