Therophon turbinatum

Therophon turbinatum Rydb. sp. no v
Tall, erect; stem about 6 dm. high, glabrous below, glandular-puberulent above; basal and lower cauline leaves with glabrous petioles, 5-15 cm. long, and bristle-like stipules; blades glabrous, thin, reniform, 5-7-cleft and toothed with broadly ovate, glandular -mucronate teeth ; upper stem-leaves short-petioled and with orbicular blades ; hypanthium campanulate, glandular-puberulent, 2-3 mm. long, in fruit ellipsoid and distinctly acute at the base and about 8 mm. long.
Type collected on banks of a stream among the mountains, northern Alabama, by S. B. Buckley.
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Sta. 2: 361. 1892.
Boykinia aconitifolia Nutt. Jour. Acad. Phila. 7 • 113. 1834.
Therofon napelloides Raf. New Fl. 4: 66. 1836.
Saxifraga aconitifolia Field. & Gardn. Sert. PI. pi. 57. 1844.
Tall ; stem 3-7 dm. high, sparingly glandularvillous with brown hairs ; basal and lower cauline leaves long-petioled and with bristle-like stipules ; petioles 1-2 dm. long, glabrous or sparingly villous-hirsute ; blades reniform with a shallow sinus at the base, glabrous, 5-9-cleft halfway down and sharply incised with lanceolate or ovate teeth ; upper stem-leaves short-petioled or the uppermost sessile and ovate ; hypanthium campanulate, without the sepals 1.5 mm. long or in fruit spherical and 4 mm. long, glandular ; sepals triangular-lanceolate ; petals white, spatulate or obovate, 3 mm. long.
Type locality : In the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains (probably in Virginia or North Carolina).
Distribution : In woods from Virginia to Tennessee and Georgia.