Abronia villosa
desert sand-verbena, hairy sand verbena
decumbent to ascending, often widely spreading, much branched in large plants, forming large, loose mats, elongate, usually with reddish tinge, glandular-pubescent to long viscid-villous.
petiole 0.5–5 cm;
blade deltate-ovate to ovate or elliptic, 1–5 × 1–4.5 cm, margins entire to sinuate and ± undulate, adaxial surface glabrous or glandular-pubescent, abaxial surface glandular-pubescent.
peduncle longer than subtending petiole;
bracts lanceolate to lance-ovate, 2.5–11 × 1–3 mm, papery, viscid-villous;
flowers 15–35.
tube pink, 10–35 mm, limb usually magenta, with light eyespot, rarely white, 6–18 mm diam.
usually winged, ± obdeltate in profile, 5–10 × 4–15 mm, indurate, ± rugose-veined, sometimes inconspicuously so;
wings 3–5, not folded, without dilations, thin, truncate distally, equaling or extending slightly beyond conic apex of fruit body, interior spongy.
Abronia villosa
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Perianth tubes 10-20 mm; fruits strongly rugose veined | var. villosa |
1. Perianth tubes 20-35 mm; fruits inconspicuously rugose veined | var. aurita |
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