- Ribes nevadense
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Sierra currant Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Core eudicots Order: Saxifragales Family: Grossulariaceae Genus: Ribes Species: R. nevadense Binomial name Ribes nevadense
Kellogg [1]Ribes nevadense (orth. var. R. nevadaense[2]) is a species of currant known by the common names Sierra currant and mountain pink currant.
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Distribution
Ribes nevadense is native to several of the mountain ranges in California, including the Peninsular Ranges, the Klamath Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada, its distribution extending into western Nevada. It may occur in Oregon, as well.[2] It grows in forest habitat.
Description
Ribes nevadense is an erect shrub growing 1 to 2 meters tall. The glandular leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and are divided shallowly into a few dully toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of up to 20 flowers hanging pendent or held erect on the branches. Each flower has opens into a corolla-like array of five pinkish red sepals with five smaller white petals in a tube at the center. The fruit is an edible blue-black berry under a centimeter wide. It is somewhat waxy in texture and studded with glandular hairs.
References
- ^ R. nevadense was first described and published in the Proceeds of the California Academy of Sciences 1: 63 (-64). 1855. "Plant Name Details for Ribes nevadense". IPNI. http://www.ipni.org:80/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=30017132-2. Retrieved July 21, 2010.
- ^ a b Flora of North America
External links
Categories:- Ribes
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada region (U.S.)
- Plants described in 1855
- Saxifragales stubs
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