Flora of North America species comparison

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Ibervillea tenuisecta

deer-apples, slimlobe globeberry
Stems

to 1 m, glaucous.
Leaves

petiole 1–2 cm;

blade deeply pedately 3-lobed, 2–6 cm wide, slightly succulent, lobes narrowly oblong to linear, 2–5 mm wide, surfaces glabrous.
Inflorescences

staminate flowers 4–7(–20) in racemes 0.5–1.5 cm.
Fruits

bright red, globose, 1–1.5 cm.
Seeds

(2–)5–9(–12), 5–6 mm.
Petals

3–4 mm.

Ibervillea tenuisecta
Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Rocky hills, draws, arroyos, flats, creosote-blackbrush, Chihuahuan desert scrub, commonly with Acacia, Chilopsis, Fallugia, Flourensia, Larrea, Opuntia, Parthenium, and Prosopis, mesquite-oak woodlands
Elevation (300–)900–1600 m ((1000–)3000–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas)
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Source FNA vol. 6, p. 32.
Parent taxa Cucurbitaceae > Ibervillea
Sibling taxa
I. lindheimeri
Synonyms Sicydium lindheimeri var. tenuisectum, I. lindheimeri var. tenuisecta
Name authority (A. Gray) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 1136. (1903)
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