Dalea pinetorum var. pinetorum


Rupert C. Barneby

127a.  Dalea pinetorum Gentry var. pinetorum

(Plate CXII)

Characters as given in key; calyx ± 8 mm long, the tube 2.7 mm, the dorsal tooth 5-5.5 mm long, plumose with hairs up to 1 mm long or more. — Material: Chihuahua: typus and paratypus; Sonora: Yecora, S. Walker, Mex 9 (NY).

Among pines in the pine-oak belt, ± 1500 m (5000 ft), known only from along the Sonora-Chihuahua boundary between Yecora, Sonora, and Mesa Colorada, Chihuahua, on and near the Rio Mayo-Rio Mulatos divide. — Flowering September-October.

Dalea pinetorum (of pinewoods) Gentry, Madrono 10: 232, Pl. 16, fig. 2 (map). 1950.—"Type. La Mesa Colorada in Sierra Madre of western Chihuahua, Mexico...October 12, 1933, Gentry 529..." — Holotypus, DS (not seen); isotypi, ARIZ, MICH! paratypi, Gentry 653 from Sierra de las Papas, MICH (mostly lvs).

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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