UCR - University of California, Riverside Herbarium - Vascular Plants (UCR)
UCR-BPS-284781
UCR-284781
Olneya tesota A. Gray
Fabaceae
A.C. Sanders
43457
2018-03-11
2018-3-11
Jim Malusa
United States, California, Imperial, Chocolate Mtns. Aerial Gunnery Range, canyon at range boundary, 4.6 km NE (47°) of Sawtooth Mountain, 7 km north of Mount Barrow
33.21306 -114.93806
0692168E 3676800N
318 meters (1043ft)
Canyon in alluvial hills, ± consolidated older alluvium; creosote bush scrub and microphyll woodland.
Sterile
Common 5-10 m trees along wash and on hillsides, but hills with old dead trunks and young plants in gullies. Conditions appear to have deteriorated for this species, now surviving mostly along major wash. All plants sterile. Paired stipular spines at leaf bases. Heavy dense wood.