Oreocarya  "flava group"
after Higgins. 1971


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Taxa list of the flava group
The flava group (nutlets compressed, scar closed):
     Oreocarya atwoodii (L.C. Higgins) Hasenstab & M.G. Simpson†  
     Oreocarya capitata Eastw. 
     Oreocarya confertiflora Greene  
     Oreocarya flava A. Nelson  
     Oreocarya johnstonii (L.C. Higgins) Hasenstab & M.G. Simpson  
     Oreocarya leucophaea (Douglas) Greene  
     Oreocarya semiglabra (Barneby) Hasenstab & M.G. Simpson  
     Oreocarya salmonensis A. Nelson & J.F. Macbr.
**=not treated by Higgins

Combined distribution of all species of the flava group
 


Comparison of nutlet morphology of the species of the flava group
(left=dorsal view; right=ventral view, all at same approximate scale; bars=1 mm)





Oreocarya confertiflora
Oreocarya flava





Oreocarya semiglabra
Oreocarya salmonesis


Distribution and nutlet morphology of species of the nubigena group
Oreocarya atwoodii

Oreocarya confertiflora
RSA 196047
Oreocarya confertiflora
L. Ripma 305

Oreocarya flava
RSA 23687

Oreocarya salmonesis
POM 88946

Oreocarya semiglara
L. Ripma 325
SDSU 20005

Maps of all species except O. howelliana, O. hypsophila, and O. ursina from: Kartesz, J.T., The Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2012. North American Plant Atlas (http://www.bonap.org/MapSwitchboard.html).
Chapel Hill, N.C. [maps generated from Kartesz, J.T. 2010. Floristic Synthesis of North America, Version 1.0. Biota of North America Program (BONAP). (in press)].
COLOR KEY: Dark green=present in state; Light green=present in county, not rare; Yellow=present in county, rare. Accessed 8 Dec 2012.