Flora of North America species comparison

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Atamisquea emarginata

atamisquea, desert caper, palo-zorillo, vomitbush
Habit Shrubs or multi-trunked trees, 1–8 m.
Stems

branched at right angles, ± terete;

branchlets with lepidote scales.
Leaves

petiole 1–1.2 mm;

blade 1–3(–5) × 0.2–0.6 cm, base rounded, apex shallowly emarginate to rounded, abaxial surface densely lepidote, adaxial surface smooth.
Inflorescences

terminating spur shoots, 1–3 cm, lepidote.
Pedicels

3–4 mm.
Flowers

sepals (reflexed at anthesis), ovate, proximal pair 0.8–1.5 mm, distal pair 3–3.5 × 2.5 mm, abaxially lepidote, adaxially tomentose, hairs simple;

petals white, oblong, 3–6.5 × 2–3 mm;

staminodia 0–3;

gynophore 3–8 mm.
Capsules

8–11 × 5–6 mm, dehiscing into 2–4 segments, constricted between seeds, mesocarp red.
Seeds

3.8–5 mm.
2n

= 16.

Atamisquea emarginata
Phenology Flowering early summer.
Habitat Desert scrub, arroyos or flats
Elevation 50-200 m [160-700 ft]
Distribution
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AZ; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora); South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)
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Parent taxa Capparaceae > Atamisquea
Synonyms Capparis atamisquea
Name authority Miers ex Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Misc. 3: 143. (1833)
Source FNA vol. 7, p. 196. Treatment author: Gordon C. Tucker.
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