Pinos Altos Fameflower

Plants subscapose, to 0.8 dm; roots tuberous, turbinate, sometimes forked, fleshy. Stems ± erect, usually simple. Leaves sessile; blade terete, to 8 cm. Inflorescences cymose, over-topped by leaves; peduncle scapelike, to 3 cm. Flowers: sepals deciduous, ovate, 3 mm; petals yellow, elliptic to obovate, 4 mm; stamens usually 5-8; stigma 1, subcapitate. Capsules ellipsoid to subglobose, sometimes trigonous, 4-6 mm. Seeds with arcuate ridges, 1 mm.

Ariz., N.Mex.; n Mexico.

Flowering Jun-Sep.

Dry, shallow, rocky soil on or near outcrops; of conservation concern; 1600-1800m.

Talinum humile Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 183. 1881

Talinum humile Greene, Bot. Gaz. 6: 183. 1881
Talinum Greenmanii Harshb. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 183. 1897.
A small herb, 2.5-5 cm. high, with spindle-shaped taproot; leaf-blades terete, 1-5 em. long, 1-3 mm. thick; inflorescence a cyme, shorter than the leaves, bracted at the forks; pedicels slender; sepals oval or oval-ovate, 3 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, obtuse; petals elliptic or obovate, 3.5-4 mm. long, 1.5-1.7 mm. broad, obtuse, yellow; stamens 5; stigma capitate; capsule ellipsoid or somewhat ellipsoid-ovoid, 4-5 mm. long, 2.S-3 mm. in diameter; seeds black, 0.9-1 mm. wide, with several concentric subcircular ridges on the side.
Type locality: Oil a rocky table-land near the southern base of the Pinos Altos Mountains, New Mexico.
Distribition-: New Mexico and Mexico. [iADSTKATIOM: Hull. Torrey Club 24: pi. 299, f. 4.