Desmodium psilophyllum |
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simple-leaf tick trefoil |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial. |
Stems | ascending to erect, branched, 30–80 cm, inconspicuously uncinate-puberulent or glabrescent. |
Leaves | unifoliolate; stipules ± persistent, narrowly ovate-deltate, 3–3.5 mm; petiole 6–11 mm; leaflet blades ovate to narrowly ovate, 30–80 × 10–30 mm, length (2–)2.5–5 times width, apex acute or obtuse, with paler patches along midrib adaxially, surfaces uncinate-puberulent and villous. |
Inflorescences | often numerous, slender and flexuous, branched or unbranched; rachis densely uncinate-puberulent and villous; primary bracts narrowly ovate, 1–2 mm. |
Pedicels | 4–10 mm. |
Flowers | calyx 2.5–3 mm, puberulent and sparsely pilose, tube 1 mm; abaxial lobes 2–3 mm, lateral lobes 2 mm, adaxial connate nearly to apex; corolla pink to purple, 4–5 mm. |
Loments | margins slightly involute when young, sutures crenate abaxially, sinuate adaxially; connections adaxial, 1/5 as broad as segments; segments 3–5, elliptic to obovate, 2.5–6 × 3–3.5 mm, rounded abaxially, convex adaxially, sparsely uncinate-puberulent, sutures glabrous; stipe 1.5–2.5 mm. |
2n | = 22. |
Desmodium psilophyllum |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Mountain woodlands, creek beds, terraces. |
Elevation | 1000–2200 m. (3300–7200 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; TX; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas)
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Discussion | Desmodium psilophyllum is known in the flora area from southern Arizona to western and central Texas at the edge of Edwards Plateau; it is not known from New Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Meibomia psilophylla |
Name authority | Schlechtendal: Linnaea 12: 310. (1838) |
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