OXYPOLIS TERNATA (APIACEAE) DELETED FROM THE TEXAS FLORA

2 Pages·2003·0.95 MB·English

by  Bruce A Sorrie

FROM
TERN DELETED THE
OXYPOLIS ATA (APIACEAE)
TEXAS FLORA
Colum
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g Research,
Suzanne Birmingham Walker
ShelbyvilleJX 75973, U.S.A.
Program
Rodgers Watson Johnston Texas Natural Heritage
(1950), (1982), (1990),
Meacham
Jones and Kartesz and (1999) include Oxypolis
(1995), et al. (1997),
ternata (Nutt.) A. Heller in the Texas flora, apparently on the basis of a 1947
Lincoln Constance annotation of a 1945 VL. Cory specimen (Cory 49902 [GH])
from Hardin County that was identified initially as Cynosciadium digitatum
DC. The Constance annotation "lOxypolis ternata^ This apparently led
reads:
Rodgers (1950) to include O. ternata in the Texas flora (Rodgers did not anno-
tate Cory 49902) and Watson later (see Johnston 1990:57) to include in her Big
it
from which has subsequently been cop-
Thicket National Preserve plant
list it
A
no
by search Watson's vouchers revealed Oxypolis ternata
ied others. of
(Brown
n.d.).
We examined Cory 49902 and duplicate BRIT and found them to be
a at
common
narrow Raf which morphological variant
leaved O. rigidior (L.) is a
,,
much and
Both specimens have paired
of that species over of range. leaflets
its
Another
reticulate veins, characters of O. rigidior hut not of 0. ternata. trouble-
some Texas specimen has been Correll 34924 [TEX] collected in Angelina Co. in
was
1967 and annotated to 0. ternata by A.O. Tucker in 1980. It annotated to O.
Tom
Wendt
rigidior by B.L. Turner in 2000 and reconfirmed to be O. rigidior by
We
comm.) examined Mathias and Constance
in 2003. also the (1961) treat-
(pers.
ment of Texas Apiaceae and found that they listed Cory 49902 as an example of
A
but did not mention ternata as occurring in Texas. search of
O. rigidior O.
TAMU
ASTQ DUKE, NCU, SHST TEX, and
BRIX FLAS, FSU, SBSC, (on
line),
F,
We
VDB
revealed no Texas specimens of 0. ternata. have collected specimens
of 0. rigidior from Tyler County, adjacent to Hardin County that are almost
TEX.
identical in appearance to Cory 49902. These have been deposited at
As as we can discern, 0. ternata occurs no closer to Texas than the cen-
far
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Carr and Jason Singhurst, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and
Bill
the curators and staff of the herbaria where we worked, all aided with the study.
Tom
Wendt and Lindsay Woodruff examined specimen TEX.
a at
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