Mirabilis exserta Brandegee

Mirabilis exserta Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3: 165. 1891
Plants erect, 4-6 dm. high, much branched, the branches slender, densely viscid-puberulent, or glabrate below; petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades rhombic-orbicular, ovateorbicular, broadly ovate-deltoid, or oval-ovate, 6-11 cm. long, 4-10.5 cm. wide, subcordate or truncate at the base, attenuate to broadly rounded at the apex, often apiculate, thin, bright-green, sparsely puberulent when young but soon glabrate, minutely ciliolate; inflorescence of large terminal many-flowered cymes, these bearing few small, orbicular or ovate bracts; peduncles 1-5 mm. long, densely shortvillous and viscid; involucre broadly turbinatecampanulate, 6-11 mm. long, densely viscid-villous, the lobes shorter than the tube, broadly triangular, acute, slightly accrescent in age; perianth 4-5 cm. long, white tinged with pink, sparsely glandularvillous outside with short hairs, gradually dilated upward, the limb 1.5-2.5 cm. broad; stamens 5, about twice as long as the perianth; fruit broadly obovoid. or oval, 6-8 mm. long, obscurely angled, smooth, dark-brown.
Type locality : Summits of the spurs of the Sierra de San Francisquito, Lower California. Distribution: Mountains of the Cape Region of Lower California.

Mirabilis exserta Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3: 165. 1891
Plants erect, 4-6 dm. high, much branched, the branches slender, densely viscid-puberulent, or glabrate below; petioles slender, 1-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades rhombic-orbicular, ovateorbicular, broadly ovate-deltoid, or oval-ovate, 6-11 cm. long, 4-10.5 cm. wide, subcordate