Flora of North America species comparison

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Aphanisma

coastalcreeper
Habit Herbs, annual, glabrous.
Stems

prostrate, decumbent, ascending and stout or slender and flexuous, simple or sparsely branched, not jointed or armed, succulent.
Leaves

alternate, sessile or petiolate;

blade not fleshy, margins entire;

proximal spatulate, oblanceolate, or oblong, apex obtuse or acute;

distal ovate-oblong to cordate-oblong, base clasping.
Inflorescences

axillary, sessile, 1–5-flowered.
Flowers

bisexual;

perianth 3(–5)-lobed, herbaceous;

stigmas 3;

stamen 1.
Seeds

horizontal, lenticular;

seed coat black, rugose-punctate;

embryo incompletely annular, perisperm copious.
Fruiting

structures: utricle globose, exceeding perianth at maturity;

pericarp free from seed, green, membranous, dehiscence circumscissile.
[no chromosome count available.]

Aphanisma
Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 264. Author: Leila M. Shultz.
Parent taxa Chenopodiaceae
Subordinate taxa
A. blitoides
Name authority Nuttall ex Moquin-Tandon: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prod. 13(2): 43, 54. (1849)
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