Cryptantha pondii

Cryptantha pondii Greene

Pittonia 1: 291. 1889


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Pronunciation/Pronunciación:
 Cryp-tán-tha  pónd-i-i
Etymology/Etimología:
 after C. F. Pond, who collected the type specimen
Synonyms/Sinónimos:

Cryptantha bartolomaei Greene, Pittonia 2: 232 (1892)
Cryptantha ponelii Greene ex Brand [misspelling of C. pondii], in Pflanzenr. (Engler) IV. 252(Heft 97): 56. 1931

Type/Tipo:
C. F. Pond 22, March 1889, Holotype: NDG (specimen not located); Isotype: US41006=US01050283;
      MEXICO: Bay of San Bartolomé


Protologue from Pittonia 1: 291-292 (1889):
22. CRYPTANTHE. PONDII. From a few inches to nearly a foot high, rather slender, sparingly leafy and setulose, the leaves narrowly linear, an inch or two in length: spikes terminal in threes or fours on a short common peduncle, remotely bracteolate, the bracts hardly surpassing the calyces, these crowded, a line long, villous-setose but not at all hispid, persistent and open in fruit: corolla rather large: nutlets 4, smooth and shining, 1⁄2 line [ca. 1.1 mm] long, ovate-lanceolate, the groove closed, divaricate at the very base.
      Plant with the habit, aspect and persistent open calyx of the Pterygium section, but with the nutlets of C. leiocarpa.
Note: Comments in square brackets []. Note description of nutlets as smooth and shining.


Treatment from Johnston 1925:62 (synonomizing with C. patula, comment about discrepancy in nutlet morphology in C. pondii)

But, see Johnston 1928 for evidence that C. pondii is a distinct species.


Distribution:
 Cryptantha_pondii2 map Cryptantha_pondii map 
Left & Middle: Cryptantha pondii is only known from three localities to date (above). From Simpson and Rebman 2021.
Right: Georeferenced herbarium specimens from CCH2.org, Leaflet Open Street Map. Click map to see current records.


Type:
US01050283 holotype specimen
C. F. Pond 22, Mar 1889, (US41006=US01050283)
MEXICO: Baja California, Bay of San Bartolomé


Isotype:
GH00096293-Cryptantha_bartolomaei type
Charles F. Pond s.n., 1889, MEXICO: Baja California ("Coast of Lower California")
      Isotype: GH00096293


Exemplars:
ASU0014603 specimen
H.S. Gentry 8684, 13 March 1949 (ASU0014603)
MEXICO: Baja California Sur, 2-3 mile E of Punta Eugenia, Vizcaino Desert, Habitat: Maritime Desert. Abundant.
27.833325 -115.034066 (estimated), 100-300 feet


DES00009392 herbarium sheet
H.S. Gentry 8684, 13 March 1949 (DES00009392)
MEXICO: Baja California Sur, 2-3 mile E of Punta Eugenia, Vizcaino Desert, Habitat: Maritime Desert. Abundant.
27.833325 -115.034066 (estimated), 100-300 feet


C_pondii-HCIB21969 specimen C_pondii-HCIB21969 fruit with nutlets
C_pondii-HCIB21969b inflorescence5 C_pondii-HCIB21969c inflorescence 6
C_pondii-HCIB21969d inflorescence2 C_pondii-HCIB21969e inflorescence3
C_pondii-HCIB21969f inflorescence C_pondii-HCIB21969g shoot
C_pondii-HCIB21969 fruit
H.S. Gentry 8684, 13 March 1949 (HCIB21969)
MEXICO: Baja California Sur, 2-3 mile E of Punta Eugenia, Vizcaino Desert
27.82025 -115.0502, 100-300 feet


SD86419 specimen
Cryptantha_pondii-SD86419 inflorescence1
Cryptantha_pondii-SD86419 inflorescence2
Cryptantha_pondii-SD86419 fruit
Cryptantha_pondii-SD86419 nutlets
H.S. Gentry 8684, 13 March 1949 (SD86419)
MEXICO: Baja California Sur, 2-3 mile E of Punta Eugenia, Vizcaino Desert, Habitat: Maritime Desert. Abundant.
27.82025 -115.0502, 100-300 feet


SBBG49613 specimen Cryptantha_pondii-SBBG49613 inflorescence
H.S. Ralph N. Philbrick B74-84, 25 March 1974 (SBBG49613)
Mexico, Baja California Sur, Mulege, Isla Natividad, upper south-facing talus slope of major canyon,
seventh canyon northwest of lighthouse and draining from off-shore ridge to on-shore coast, ca. 27.881926, -115.194287; associated species: Mentzelia and Phacelia.




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