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A third species, LiDochaeta lavarum, also occurs near or with L.
venosa but can be easily differentiated.
Isodendrion hosakae
Isodendrion hosakae is a branched, upright, evergreen shrub.
Reproductively mature plants range from 8 to 82 centimeters (3 to
32 inches) in height, and flowers and fruit occur on the woody
stems (Cuddihy ~ al. 1983; Wagner et al. 1990). The leathery
leaves are lance-shaped, 3.0 to 7.0 centimeters (1.2 to 2.8
inches) long and 0.6 to 2.0 centimeters (0.2 to 0.8 inches) wide.
The stipules are persistent and conspicuously cover the ends of
the stems. Like other members of the violet family, the flowers
are bilaterally symmetrical. The petals are yellowish-green to
white, up to 18 millimeters (0.7 inches) long. The fruit is a
red-tinged, green elliptical capsule 12 to 16 millimeters (4.7 to
6.3 inches) long, containing obovoid seeds about 2 by 3
millimeters (0.08 by 0.12 inches) (Nagata 1982; Wagner ~.t al
1990).
The plants are often found within the crown outline of other
native shrubs or alien grass clumps suggesting that there may be a
beneficial association between Isodendrion hosakae and these other
plants (Cuddihy et al. 1983).
HISTORIC RANGE AND POPULATION STATUS
Both Livochaeta venosa and Isodendrion hosakae became known to
science long after most of the native vegetation of the region was
extirpated or severely altered by human use (Rock 1913). L.
venosa was first collected in 1910 and named in 1933 (Sherff
1933). I. hosakae was named in 1952 from a 1948 collection (St.
John 1952).
Today, both species are found at all sites where they were
historically known, and Lipochaeta venosa is found at one
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