Oreocarya  "flavoculata group"
after Higgins. 1971


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Taxa list of the flavoculata group

The flavoculata group (nutlets rugose and tuberculate or muricate or foveolate; scar slightly open [except O. bakeri], constricted above base, margin usu. elevated):      Oreocarya bakeri Greene        Oreocarya flavoculata A. Nelson        Oreocarya longiflora A. Nelson        Oreocarya mensana (M. E. Jones) Payson        Oreocarya osterhoutii Payson        Oreocarya paradoxa A. Nelson        Oreocarya tenuis Eastw.        Oreocarya wetherillii Eastw.

**=not treated by Higgins

Combined distribution of all species of the flavoculata group


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

Oreocarya bakeri Oreocarya flavoculata Oreocarya longiflora Oreocarya mensana Oreocarya osterhoutii Oreocarya paradoxa     Oreocarya wetherllii

Distribution and nutlet morphology of species of the nubigena group

Oreocarya bakeri RSA 183000 Oreocarya bakeri Ripma 335

Oreocarya flavoculata L. Ripma 307

Oreocarya longiflora L. Ripma 342

Oreocarya mensana POM 46763

Oreocarya osterhoutii L. Ripma 343 Oreocarya osterhoutii POM 46669

Oreocarya paradoxa POM 46753

Oreocarya wetherllii CAS 502422

Maps of all species except 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.