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Chorizanthe orcuttiana Parry (1884:54)

San Diego spineflower, Orcutt's spineflower

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Rediscovered in 1979 (Lubrano, 1991)

Rediscovered again in March-May 1991 (Lubrano, 1991)

 

Distribution

San Diego County, California

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Bauder, E. T. (1998). Chorizanthe orcuttiana (Orcutt’s spineflower). Season 1 Summary. Unpublished Report presented to PLER Working Group (Navy contract N68711-98-LT-88010).

Bauder, E. T. (2000). Recovery and management of Orcutt’s spineflower (Chorizanthe orcuttiana) Final Report. Unpublished Report prepared for California Department of Fish and Game, South Coast Region (contract # FG7643R5).

Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.

Lubrano, Gina. (1991, 13 October). Tiny plant's rediscovery raises hopes. The San Diego Union, [pagination?].

Reveal, J. L. and Hardham, C. B. (1989). A revision of the annual species of Chorizanthe (Polygonaceae: Eriogonoideae). Phytologia 66(2): 98-198.

Rusev, A. and Zink, T. (2005). Draft final phase II work plan for the native habitat enhancement for Orcutt’s spineflower (Chorizanthe orcuttiana) on Naval Base Point Loma. Unpublished report prepared for Kim O’Connor, Natural Resources Office, Commander Navy Region Southwest; under Cooperative Agreement with Southwest Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command San Diego California N68711-04-LT-A0051.

Smith, James Payne, Jnr. (ed.) and York, Richard (DEM). (1984). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (3rd edition). Berkeley, California: California Native Plant Society. xviii + 174 pp.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (1996). Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Determination of endangered or threatened status for four southern maritime chaparral plant taxa from southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico. Federal Register 61: 52370-52383.

USFWS. (2007). Chorizanthe orcuttiana (Orcutt’s spineflower) Five-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Carlsbad, California.

Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.

http://mailman.nhm.ku.edu/pipermail/taxacom/2003-January/042308.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorizanthe_orcuttiana

 

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