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Indian anoda

anoda

Habit Subshrubs, branching principally in inflorescence, 1 m. Stems erect, with simple hairs 0.5–1 mm and shorter glandular hairs. Herbs or subshrubs, annual.
Stems

erect to decumbent, hispid or stellate-hairy to glabrescent.

Leaves

petiole subequal to blade or shorter upward, with simple hairs 0.5–1 mm and shorter glandular hairs;

blade concolorous, broadly ovate, gradually reduced and narrower upward, to 12 cm, membranous, base cordate, margins dentate, apex acuminate, surfaces minutely tomentose.

stipules deciduous, inconspicuous, usually linear;

blade usually linear, lanceolate, oblong, or ovate to triangular, sometimes lobed, base truncate, cordate, or cuneate, margins dentate to entire.

Inflorescences

usually panicles.

axillary solitary flowers or terminal racemes or panicles;

involucel absent.

Pedicels

1–5 cm.

Flowers

calyx 5–7 mm, lobes with dark midrib, apex ± acuminate, tomentose;

petals pale yellow, drying reddish, 10 mm, prominently bearded on claw;

staminal column with recurved hairs;

style 5-branched;

stigmas glabrous.

calyx accrescent or not, not inflated, ribbed or not, base rounded, lobes ovate to triangular, apex acute or acuminate;

corolla yellow, lavender, or purplish, rarely white;

staminal column included;

style 5–19-branched;

stigmas usually abruptly capitate.

Fruits

schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate, not indurate, hairy;

mericarps 5–19, 1-celled, with or without spur at dorsal angle, lateral walls usually disintegrating at maturity, irregularly dehiscent.

Seeds

without enclosing endocarp.

1 per mericarp, sometimes enclosed in persistent reticulate endocarp.

Schizocarps

6 mm diam., minutely hairy;

mericarps 5, dorsally rounded.

x

= 15.

2n

= 30.

Anoda abutiloides

Anoda

Phenology Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat Dry, open shrublands
Elevation 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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from USDA
North America; Mexico; Central America; South America; West Indies; Australia
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Discussion

Anoda abutiloides is found in Pima and Santa Cruz counties.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Species 23 (7 in the flora).

Anoda is predominantly Mexican in both distribution and maximum diversity, the South American occurrences being predominantly of the weedy A. cristata.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Petals usually lavender to purplish, rarely white
→ 2
1. Petals pale to bright yellow
→ 4
2. Plants frequently decumbent; petals 8–26(–30) mm, manifestly exceeding calyx, lavender or purplish, rarely white; adaxial leaf surface with appressed, simple hairs 1 mm; mericarps with dorsal spurs 1.5–4 mm.
A. cristata
3. Mericarps 10 or 11, without dorsal spurs; endocarp present; midstem leaves with 3 narrowly linear lobes; staminal columns usually glabrous.
A. reticulata
3. Mericarps 6–8, with evident, small, dorsal spurs; endocarp incompletely developed or absent; midstem leaves ovate to hastate to triangular; staminal columns hairy.
A. thurberi
4. Leaf blade surfaces with simple, appressed hairs adaxially; petals bright yellow; fruits hirsute, mericarps 10–12, dorsally spurred.
A. lanceolata
4. Leaf blade surfaces minutely tomentose; petals pale yellow, sometimes fading with reddish blush; fruits minutely or densely hairy, mericarps 5–13, dorsally rounded or spurred
→ 5
5. Mericarps 10–13, dorsal spur 1–2 mm; endocarp present; petals 6–8 mm, not fading reddish.
A. crenatiflora
6. Calyces 5–7 mm; mericarps 5; fruits 6 mm diam.; leaf blades membranous, concolorous, broadly ovate, apex acuminate.
A. abutiloides
6. Calyces 3–5 mm; mericarps 5–8; fruits 4–5 mm diam.; leaf blades coriaceous, discolorous, often narrowly oblong or linear, apex acute.
A. pentaschista
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 235. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill. FNA vol. 6, p. 234. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Anoda Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Sibling taxa
A. crenatiflora, A. cristata, A. lanceolata, A. pentaschista, A. reticulata, A. thurberi
Subordinate taxa
A. abutiloides, A. crenatiflora, A. cristata, A. lanceolata, A. pentaschista, A. reticulata, A. thurberi
Synonyms A. caudatifolia, A. urophylla Cavanillea, Sidanoda
Name authority A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 300. (1887) Cavanilles: Diss. 1: 38, plate 10, fig. 3, plate 11, figs. 1, 2. (1785)
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