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Dalea reverchonii

Comanche Peak prairie clover
Stems

1.5–2 dm, eglandular.
Inflorescences

spikes, loosely flowered, not involucrate, 8–10 mm diam.;

axis visible, 1.5–5 cm;

bracts deciduous, 2.5 mm.
Peduncles

0–1 cm.
Stamens

5, 6.1–7.2 mm, filaments distinct to 3.3–4 mm, anthers 0.7–0.9 mm.
Corollas

magenta-purple;

not conventionally papilionaceous;

banner 4.3–4.6 mm, blade ovate to elliptic, 2.1–2.3 × 1.8–2 mm; epistemonous petals attached at separation of filaments, blades 2.6–3 × 1.1–1.3 mm.
Calyces

subsymmetric, 4.2–4.6 mm, silky-pilosulous to -tomentulose, hairs subappressed;

tube 1.9–2.1 mm, with ribs leading to sinuses stronger than those leading to lobes, tube appearing bluntly 5-angled, with 0 glands between ribs, lobes lanceolate-acuminate or adaxial pair triangular-acuminate.
Legumes

3.1–3.5 mm, pilosulous and gland-dotted distally.
Seeds

1.3 mm.
Perennial

herbs, decumbent, pilosulous.
Principal

leaves 2–3 cm;

leaflets 7 or 9, blades linear-oblong or -oblanceolate, 5–12 mm.

Dalea reverchonii
Phenology Flowering spring–early summer (fall).
Habitat Rocky limestone soils.
Elevation ca. 400 m. (ca. 1300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
TX
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Dalea reverchonii occurs in Hood, Parker, and Wise counties in north-central Texas. It is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Dalea
Sibling taxa
D. albiflora, D. aurea, D. bartonii, D. bicolor, D. brachystachys, D. cahaba, D. candida, D. carnea, D. carthagenensis, D. compacta, D. cylindriceps, D. emarginata, D. enneandra, D. exigua, D. exserta, D. feayi, D. filiformis, D. flavescens, D. foliosa, D. formosa, D. frutescens, D. gattingeri, D. grayi, D. greggii, D. hallii, D. jamesii, D. lachnostachys, D. lanata, D. laniceps, D. lasiathera, D. leporina, D. lumholtzii, D. mollis, D. mollissima, D. multiflora, D. nana, D. neomexicana, D. obovata, D. ornata, D. phleoides, D. pinnata, D. pogonathera, D. polygonoides, D. pringlei, D. pulchra, D. purpurea, D. sabinalis, D. scandens, D. scariosa, D. searlsiae, D. tentaculoides, D. tenuifolia, D. tenuis, D. urceolata, D. versicolor, D. villosa, D. wrightii
Synonyms Petalostemon reverchonii
Name authority (S. Watson) Shinners: Field & Lab. 17: 84. (1949) — (as reverchoni)
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