Anoda abutiloides |
Anoda |
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Indian anoda |
anoda |
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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. |
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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. |
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Inflorescences | usually panicles. |
axillary solitary flowers or terminal racemes or panicles; involucel absent. |
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Pedicels | 1–5 cm. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Seeds | without enclosing endocarp. |
1 per mericarp, sometimes enclosed in persistent reticulate endocarp. |
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Schizocarps | 6 mm diam., minutely hairy; mericarps 5, dorsally rounded. |
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x | = 15. |
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2n | = 30. |
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Anoda abutiloides |
Anoda |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Dry, open shrublands | |||||||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 1000–1500 m (3300–4900 ft) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Chihuahua, Jalisco, Sinaloa, Sonora)
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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.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 235. | FNA vol. 6, p. 234. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Anoda | Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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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