Acmispon strigosus |
Acmispon tomentosus |
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strigose lotus |
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Habit | Herbs, annual, usually mat-forming, sometimes cespitose (ascending and bushy), green to grayish, 0.3–5 dm, not or ± fleshy, strigillose, hirsute, canescent-tomentose, or scantily pubescent; taprooted. | Herbs, perennial (often flowering first year, appearing annual), mat-forming, low, green, 3–10 dm, not fleshy, usually distally villous (young), sparsely hirsute to glabrate (mature); from woody caudices, taprooted. | ||||||||||||
Stems | 1–20+, procumbent or decumbent to ascending, branched basally, herbaceous, slender, leafy. |
1–10+, procumbent, much branched, wiry or ± woody, leafy. |
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Leaves | irregularly pinnate; stipules glandlike; subsessile; rachis 3–20 mm, flattened; leaflets 4–10, blades unequal, obovate to oblanceolate to linear-oblong or oblong, apex acute to obtuse or truncate, surfaces ± densely tomentose to glabrate. |
irregularly subpalmate; stipules glandlike; subessile to petiolate; rachis 2–10 mm, sometimes flattened; leaflets 4–6, blades ovate to obovate, apex ± obtuse to acute, surfaces sparsely to densely pilose. |
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Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered. |
3–8-flowered. |
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Peduncles | ascending or reflexed, upturned, 3–25 mm, shorter to longer than leaves (often elongated in fruit); bract absent or 1–3-foliolate, usually subtending umbel. |
ascending, 1–5 mm, shorter than leaves; bract unifoliolate, distal. |
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Flowers | (5–)6–10(–12) mm; calyx 3–5.5 mm, tube ± sparsely strigillose or glabrous, lobes subulate; corolla yellow (sometimes banner orangish abaxially), turning orange or reddish, claws ± equaling calyx tube, banner implicate-ascending or remaining closely implicate, wings longer than keel; style corneously thickened, marked by color, straight, puberulent or glabrous. |
4–6(–7) mm; calyx 2–4 mm, tube usually villous, lobes setaceous; corolla yellow to reddish, dark-tipped, claws shorter than or equaling calyx tube, banner implicate-ascending, wings equaling to longer than keel (and other petals); style geniculate 90° or incurved, glabrous. |
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Legumes | persistent, exserted, erect or divergent, brown, straight to ± curved distally, compressed, not or slightly constricted, incompletely septate, linear-oblong, 10–35 × 2–3 mm, thinly leathery, apex initially short-beaked, dehiscent, smooth, margins smooth, thin, glabrous or ± strigose. |
deciduous with calyx, exserted, ascending to divergent, tawny, straight to strongly arched, turgid, not constricted, not septate, linear-oblong, 3–5 × 1–2 mm, leathery, apex abruptly tapering to long, curved beak, indehiscent, smooth, margins indistinctly keeled, smooth, villous. |
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Seeds | 5–10, greenish to brown, ± mottled, ovoid to cuboid or globose, rugulose or granular. |
1 or 2, olive green to brownish green, not mottled, straight to curved, narrowly ellipsoid, smooth. |
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Acmispon strigosus |
Acmispon tomentosus |
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Distribution | sw United States; n Mexico |
nw Mexico; California |
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). D. Isely (1981) discussed the variation in Acmispon strigosus (as Lotus), distinguishing three varieties, two rather distinct but with intergrading phases, and one apparently more transitional, although distinct enough to be recognized. These varieties were only noted for California in recent treatments (for example, L. Brouillet 2012, following D. Isely 1993). Nonetheless, the typical (for example, excluding intergrading phases) varieties represent recognizable morphologies that also have geographic distinction. Specimens representing intergradation seem to occur throughout the range of overlap of these varieties, sometimes rendering determination difficult. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. | ||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Acmispon | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Acmispon | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Hosackia strigosa, Anisolotus strigosus, Lotus strigosus, Ottleya strigosa | Hosackia tomentosa | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (Nuttall) Brouillet: J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 2: 392. (2008) | (Hooker & Arnott) Govaerts: Skvortsovia 4(3): 76. (2018) | ||||||||||||
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