Abronia texana

Abronia texana Standley, Contr. U. S. NatHerb. 12: 323
1909.
Perennial; stems stout, 2-6 dm. long; ascending or procumbent, sparsely branched, sparsely shortvillous or glabrate, the internodes short or elongate; petioles slender, 1-4 cm, long, finely puberulent or glabrate; leaf -blades ovate-deltoid, rhombic-ovate, or deltoid, 2-6.5 cm. long, 1.2-4 cm. wide, cordate to rounded at the base, rounded or very obtuse at the apex, entire or subsinuate, sparsely puberulent or glabrate; peduncles slender, 4-12 cm, long, viscid-puberulent; bracts linear-lanceolate to narrowly oval, 7-10 mm, long, usually 2-3 mm., rarely 4 mm., wide, acute to attenuate, scarious, whitish, shortvillous or puberulent; flowers numerous, the perianth 15-20 mm. long, the tube very slender, viscid-puberulent, greenish, the limb 6-8 mm. broad, white; fruit biturbinate, 6-8 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, thin, puberulent, brownish-gray, deeply 5-lobed, or the outer fruits obscurely lobed, the lobes usually compressed and winglike, narrowed toward each end; seed elliptic-oblong, 2.5 mm. long, darkbrown, lustrous.
Type locality: Estelline, Texas.
Distribution: In sandy soil, northern and western Texas.