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Young female plant in full cone, with many erect, jointed, spine tipped branches with much reduced leaves in sheathed whorls of 3 at the node.Though reduced, the slender, persistent, awn-like leaves are are still the longest, most noticeable, among other southwestern Ephedra. Plant at base of west facing hillside of clayish silts overlain by mixed coarse rhyolite gravels
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Male cone
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shrub on mixed alluvial gravels of pale limestone and reddish volcanic rhyolite above shallow braided arroyo
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Jepson White Mtns. workshop with Jim Morefield.
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Young female plant in full cone, with many erect, jointed, spine tipped branches with much reduced leaves in sheathed whorls of 3 at the node.Though reduced, the slender, persistent, awn-like leaves are are still the longest, most noticeable, among other southwestern Ephedra. Plant at base of west facing hillside of clayish silts overlain by mixed coarse rhyolite gravels
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road right of way crossing basin fill flats of limestone gravels and calcareous soil with Physaris fendleri
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Jepson White Mtns. workshop with Jim Morefield.
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Jepson White Mtns. workshop with Jim Morefield.
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Young female plant in full seed cones of reddish papery bracts in whorls of 3, at base of west facing hillside of clayish silts overlain by mixed coarse rhyolite gravels
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road right of way crossing basin fill flats of limestone gravels and calcareous soil
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This is a dioecious species. Shown here is part of a female plant with paired ovules.
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Young female plant in full seed cones of reddish papery bracts in whorls of 3, at base of west facing hillside of clayish silts overlain by mixed coarse rhyolite gravels
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flowering on road right of way crossing basin fill flats of limestone gravels and calcareous soil
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