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Sticky Fagonbush

Fagonia pachyacantha Rydb.

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Fagonia pachyacantha Rydberg, sp. nov
An undershrub, 3-6 dm. high ; branches yellowish or straw-colored, viscid, with glandular hairs, striate and somewhat angled ; stipules stout, subulate, 6-10 mm. long, spreading or somewhat reflexed, longer than the petioles; petioles 5-8 mm. long, spreading; leaflets 3, linear, 8-15 mm. long, about 1 mm. wide, thick, glandular ; peduncles 3-5 mm. long ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3 mm. long, with very short spinulose tips ; petals rose-purple, 6-8 mm. long; blades obovate-spatulate ; fruit 5 mm. long, reticulate, pubescent, the hairs with thickened bases ; beak about 2 mm. long.
Type collected in Lower California [date and exact locality not given], Leon Diquet (herb. N. Y. Bot. Gard.).
Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
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John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Fagonia pachyacantha

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Fagonia pachyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name sticky fagonbush. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico in Sonora and the Lower Colorado River Valley area at the California and Arizona border.

Description

Fagonia pachyacantha is a spreading perennial herb not more than 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height with very glandular stems and foliage. Each leaf is divided into three flat, green leaflets and there are straight, pointed, spine-like stipules at the base of each set.

Flowers, each about 1.5 centimeters wide, appear in the axils of the sparse leaves. The flower has five purplish pink petals with bases narrowed to thin claws. The fruit is a rounded capsule about half a centimeter long.

References

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 30 May 2023.

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Fagonia pachyacantha: Brief Summary

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Fagonia pachyacantha is a species of flowering plant in the caltrop family known by the common name sticky fagonbush. It is native to the Sonoran Desert of northwest Mexico in Sonora and the Lower Colorado River Valley area at the California and Arizona border.

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