Status: Native
Synonyms:
None
Radula bolanderi differs from other members of this genus by virtue of the very large
single oil body that takes up nearly the entire space within the cell. There are no underleaves.
Radula is complicate-bilobed with a subquadrate lobule.
Many thanks to the New York Botanical Garden and Laura Briscoe for permitting us
to photograph this specimen (NYBG barcode #00239723).
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Radula bolanderi, collection and ID by Barbara Thiers, California, San Mateo County, Huddart State Park, on Arbutus menziesii bark; December 16, 1982; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, July 29, 2023.
Radula bolanderi, photomicrograph of stem removed from bark, collection and ID by Barbara Thiers, California, San Mateo County, Huddart State Park, on Arbutus menziesii bark; December 16, 1982; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, July 29, 2023.
Radula bolanderi, photomicrograph of quadrate lobule, collection and ID by Barbara Thiers, California, San Mateo County, Huddart State Park, on Arbutus menziesii bark; December 16, 1982; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, July 29, 2023.
Radula bolanderi, photomicrograph of large oil bodies, collection and ID by Barbara Thiers, California, San Mateo County, Huddart State Park, on Arbutus menziesii bark; December 16, 1982; photos by Russ Kleinman & Karen Blisard, July 29, 2023.
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