Arenaria livermorensis

Correll

Brittonia 18: 308. 1967.

Common names: Livermore sandwort
EndemicConservation concern
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 54. Mentioned on page 51, 52.

Plants perennial, matted, moss-like. Taproots filiform. Stems 15–25, decumbent, trailing, green, 1–4 cm; internodes angular to grooved, 1–11/2 times as long as leaves, minute, shiny, pubescence of widely spreading to slightly retrorse hairs in 2 lines. Leaves connate basally, with herbaceous sheath 0.1–0.2 mm, sessile; blade 1-veined, vein prominent abaxially, linear, 4–6 × 1 mm, herbaceous, rigid, margins thickened, herbaceous, shiny, lined with peglike cilia, apex acute, pungent-tipped, not pustulate, glabrous; axillary leaf clusters present. Inflorescences solitary flowers in distal leaf axils. Pedicels erect or ascending in fruit, 6–10 mm, minutely pubescent. Flowers: sepals green, 1-veined, slightly keeled proximally, broadly lanceolate (herbaceous portion narrowly lanceolate), 3–4 mm, not enlarging in fruit, apex acute to acuminate, not pustulate, glabrous; petals absent; stamens ca. 8. Capsules very loosely enclosed by calyx, ovoid, 2–3 mm, 2/3–4/5 times as long as sepals. Seeds 5–7, dark brown to black, subglobose, slightly compressed, ca. 1 mm, shiny, smooth.


Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Crevices of cliffs and bare walls
Elevation: 2100-2500 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Arenaria livermorensis is known only from the Davis Mountains in the Trans-Pecos region of western Texas. It may be related to A. lycopodioides Willdenow ex Schlechtendal, a species found in the mountains of central Mexico.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Ronald L. Hartman +, Richard K. Rabeler +  and Frederick H. Utech +
Correll +
Livermore sandwort +
2100-2500 m +
Crevices of cliffs and bare walls +
Flowering spring–summer. +
Endemic +  and Conservation concern +
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Arenaria livermorensis +
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