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Wislizenia
Family:
Cleomaceae
Sue Carnahan
FNA
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Herbs, shrubs, or subshrubs,
annual or perennial.
Stems
sparsely branched laterally; puberulent, glabrous, or glabrate (scabrid when dry).
Leaves:
stipules minute tufts of filiform hairs; petiole without pulvinus (equal to or longer than leaflets); leaflets (1 or) 3, (conduplicate).
Inflorescences
terminal, racemes (dense); bracts usually absent; (pedicels 3-5 mm, glabrous).
Flowers:
zygomorphic; sepals usually persistent (eventually deciduous), distinct, equal; petals slightly unequal (in pairs); stamens 6 (well-exserted, ± equal); filaments inserted on gynophore, glabrous; anthers (oblong), coiling after dehiscence; gynophore reflexed in fruit; (pistil 2-lobed basally, style filiform, eventually spinelike).
Fruits
schizocarps, indehiscent, obovate, (reticulate, ± tuberculate, valves disarticulating from persistent, round septum).
Seeds
2(-4), globose, not arillate.
x
= 10.
Species within checklist:
Maricopa County
Wislizenia refracta
Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (
DBI 9983132
,
BRC 0237418
,
DBI 0743827
,
DBI 0847966
)
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