Flora of North America species comparison

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Dichondra brachypoda

New Mexico pony's-foot
Stems

sericeous.
Leaves

petiole 15–150 mm;

blade suborbiculate to reniform, 8–40 × 10–55 mm, surfaces: abaxial moderately sericeous, adaxial sparsely sericeous to glabrate.
Pedicels

5–13(–26) mm, recurved near tips.
Flowers

sepals 2.5–4 mm at anthesis, 3.8–5.2 mm in fruit;

corolla cream, 3.5–5 mm.
Fruits

slightly notched to weakly 2-lobed, 6–7 × 3–5 mm.

Dichondra brachypoda
Phenology Flowering Jun–Nov.
Habitat Oak woodland, lower ponderosa pine zones.
Elevation 700–1900 m. (2300–6200 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico
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Source FNA vol. 14.
Parent taxa Convolvulaceae > Dichondra
Sibling taxa
D. argentea, D. carolinensis, D. donelliana, D. micrantha, D. occidentalis, D. recurvata, D. sericea
Name authority Wooton & Standley: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 16: 160. (1913)
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