| Comandra umbellata subsp. pallida (DC.) Piehl | |||
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| Family | Santalaceae — APG family: Santalaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Thesium umbellatum L., Comandra umbellata var. pallida (DC.) M. E. Jones, Comandra pallida DC. | ||
| Description | Stems striate, glaucous, branched from subterranean rootstock; leaves subsessile, alternate, acute or cuspidate; cymes small, few-flowered, axillary; flowers purplish- green; fruit green, oblong to ovoid. | ||
| Ecology | Dry places; a root parasite. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of other subspecies. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.