Desmodium psilocarpum |
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Santa Cruz Island ticktrefoil |
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Habit | Herbs or shrubs, perennial. |
Stems | erect or ascending, branched, 40–100 cm, slightly uncinate-pubescent and pilose or glabrescent. |
Leaves | trifoliolate; stipules mostly persistent, broadly ovate, 4–10 mm, base subamplexicaul; petiole 30–40 mm; leaflet blades broadly ovate-elliptic or ovate to narrowly ovate, apex acute, surfaces uncinate-puberulent; terminal blade 20–70(–100) × 10–20(–50) mm, length 1.8–2 times width. |
Inflorescences | branched or unbranched; rachis bulbous-villous and uncinate-puberulent; primary bracts caducous, subulate, 1 mm. |
Pedicels | 10–20 mm, patent uncinate-pubescent. |
Flowers | calyx 1.5–2 mm, pilose and uncinate-puberulent, tube 0.8 mm; abaxial lobes 1 mm, lateral lobes 0.8–1 mm; corolla pink-purple, fading greenish, 4–5 mm. |
Loments | sutures subequally deeply crenate; connections central, 1/8–1/7 as broad as segments; segments 3–6, rounded, 6–10 × 5–7 mm, rounded, sparsely pubescent, at least on sutures; stipe 1(–2) mm. |
Desmodium psilocarpum |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Woodland, grasslands, canyon slopes, streamsides. |
Elevation | 1000–2000 m. (3300–6600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; Mexico (Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas) |
Discussion | Desmodium psilocarpum is known in the flora area from southern Arizona and adjacent southwestern New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Meibomia psilocarpa |
Name authority | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 5(6): 48. (1853) |
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