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LOASACEAE
LOASA FAMILY

 

Mentzelia L.
BLAZING STAR

 

1 Perennial herbs mostly 80−180 cm tall, typically with an erect principal shoot; flowers ± 95 mm across; petals 60−64 × 19−21 mm; stamens to 200 in 4 or 5 pseudowhorls, lacking staminodes, filaments 34−50 mm long; capsules 30−35 mm long .. Mentzelia laevicaulis   [pics]

1' Annuals 10−80 cm tall, with an hemispheric canopy; flowers 4.5−6 mm across; petals 2.5−4(−4.5) × 1.5−1.8(−2) mm; stamens 10−20 in whorls of 5, the outer whorl = staminodes notched at tip, filaments 1.6−1.8 mm long; capsules 6−13 mm long .. Mentzelia micrantha   [pics]





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A Naturalist's Flora of the Santa Monica Mountains and Simi Hills, California


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Barry A. Prigge and Arthur C. Gibson
2013



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