Acleisanthes nevadensis (Standl.) B.L.Turner

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Nyctaginaceae > Acleisanthes

Characteristics

Plants herbaceous or ± woody at base, overall moderately to densely pubescent with glandular hairs, with whitish, translucent, conic hairs (with or without large flattened and whitish terminal cell), and with appressed, white, flattened, minute hairs. Stems erect, decumbent, or prostrate, densely leafy, 8-30 cm. Leaves dull green, commonly drying yellowish green, petiolate, those of a pair slightly unequal, gradually reduced toward inflorescence, fleshy; petiole 3-20 mm; blade ovate to orbiculate, 8-30 × 4-17 mm, base obtuse to truncate, margins undulate, apex acute, obtuse, or rounded. Flowers usually 1 in axils of leaves; pedicel 1 mm; perianth 30-40 mm, tube pale dull green, limbs greenish white or pale greenish yellow, often with 5 greenish stripes, 10 mm diam.; stamens 5. Fruits 5-7 mm, puberulent with white, flattened hairs; wings 1.5-5 mm wide.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

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Images

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Distribution

Acleisanthes nevadensis world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:70028940-1
WFO ID wfo-0000516707
COL ID 9CNL
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Synonyms

Selinocarpus nevadensis Selinocarpus diffusus subsp. nevadensis Acleisanthes nevadensis