Crunocallis chamissonis

Crunocallis chamissonis L/edeb Rydb. Bull. Torrey Club 33 : 139. L906.
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lose. 1: 139 1831.
in 1 .'01 1X38.
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Mont Rob. 4 Fern Perennials, creeping or floating, rooting, producing axillary filiform branches bearing globose cormlets at the apex; stems slender, 1-3 dm. long; leaves opposite, oblanceolate, 2-5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. wide; flowers in axillary or subterminal 1-9-flowered bractless racemes; pedicels slender, recurved in fruit, 1-2.5 cm. long; sepals unequal, orbicular or obovate, 2-3 mm. long; petals pink, 7—8 mm. long, obovate, entirt; capsule obovoid, much shorter than the sepals; seeds mostly solitary, suborbicular, black, finely reticulate-grooved, 1.5 mm. long.
Type locality: Aleutian Islands.
Distribution: Springs and mossy banks, Alaska to Manitoba, Iowa, New Mexico, and southern California.