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Boechera consanguinea

(Greene) Windham & Al-Shehbaz

Four Corners Rockcress

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Identity
Unique IDELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.959316
Element CodePDBRA40180
Record TypeSPECIES
ClassificationSpecies
Classification StatusStandard
Name CategoryVascular Plant
Endemicendemic to a single nation
KingdomPlantae
PhylumAnthophyta
ClassDicotyledoneae
OrderCapparales
FamilyBrassicaceae
GenusBoechera
Other Common Names
arabette consanguine (FR)
Concept Reference
Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.
Taxonomic Comments
Boechera consanguinea is described as distinct by Windham and Al-Shehbaz (2007a), in which they indicate the taxon was treated as a synonym of A. holboellii var. retrofracta (Graham) Rydberg by Rollins (1993), which is the same treatment followed by Kartesz (1994 and 1999). Morphological evidence suggests that Boechera consanguinea is an apomictic species that arose through hybridization between B. fendleri and B. retrofracta. It is most similar to B. goodrichii, another apomictic hybrid involving B. retrofracta.
Ecology & Habitat
Other Nations (1)
United StatesNNR
ProvinceRankNative
UtahSNRYes
New MexicoSNRYes
ColoradoS3Yes
Plant Characteristics
Economic Value (Genus)No
Roadless Areas (1)
Utah (1)
AreaForestAcres
Horse Mountain - Mans PeakManti-Lasal National Forest22,159
References (5)
  1. Flora of North America Editorial Committee (FNA). 2010. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Vol. 7. Magnoliophyta: Salicaceae to Brassicaceae. Oxford University Press, New York. xxii + 797 pp.
  2. Kartesz, J.T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
  3. Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.
  4. Rollins, R.C. 1993a. The Cruciferae of continental North America: Systematics of the mustard family from the Arctic to Panama. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, California. 976 pp.
  5. Windham, M.D., and I. A.Al-Shehbaz. 2007a. New and noteworthy species of <i>Boechera</i> (Brassicaceae) II: Apomictic hybrids. Harvard Papers in Botany 11(2): 257-274.