Nissolia wislizeni |
Nissolia platycalyx |
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Arizona yellowhood |
broadsepal yellowhood |
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Stems | prostrate, to 1.2 m, moderately white-pubescent and glandular-setose. |
climbing, to 1.5 m, moderately crisp-pubescent or glabrescent. |
Leaves | 0.5–6 cm; stipules deltate-ovate, 5–7 × 1–2.5 mm; leaflets 5, usually folded when dry, axis recurved, blades orbiculate to elliptic, 4–20 × 4–22 mm, base obtuse to subcordate, apex obtuse to emarginate, mucronulate, surfaces puberulent to glabrate abaxially, glabrous adaxially. |
4–7 cm; stipules lanceolate, 3–5 × 0.5–1 mm; leaflets 5 or 7, usually not folded when dry, axis ± straight, blades elliptic to oblong, 5–25 × 4–15 mm, base obtuse, apex obtuse, mucronulate, surfaces glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 1–5-flowered, fasciculate. |
1–4-flowered, racemes. |
Pedicels | 3–20 mm. |
9–11 mm. |
Flowers | calyx (3–)4–5 mm, puberulent and setose; tube (2–)3–4 mm × 3 mm; lobes deltate-subulate, 1 mm; corolla (8–)10–15 mm. |
calyx 6.5–10 mm, pubescent to glabrate; tube 4.5–6 × 4–5 mm; lobes subulate, 1.5–4.5 mm; corolla 14–20 mm. |
Seeds | 5 × 3 mm. |
5 × 3 mm. |
Loments | 2–5-segmented, 20–40 mm, pubescent to glabrate; fertile segments 7–10 × 3–7 mm, sterile segment 6–11 × 3–7 mm; stipe 1–2 mm. |
2–4-segmented, 30–50 mm, pubescent to glabrate; fertile segments 5–7 × 5 mm, sterile segment 20–30 × 6–10(–15) mm; stipe 4 mm. |
Nissolia wislizeni |
Nissolia platycalyx |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Aug. | Flowering May–Sep. |
Habitat | Open grasslands, mesas, slopes. | Chaparral slopes. |
Elevation | 1500–1600 m. (4900–5200 ft.) | 1700 m. (5600 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico (Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Zacatecas) |
TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz) |
Discussion | Nissolia wislizeni is known from Coconino County in the flora area. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Nissolia platycalyx is known from Brewster County in the flora area. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
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Synonyms | Chaetocalyx wislizeni | |
Name authority | (A. Gray) A. Gray: J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 5: 25. (1861) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 344. (1882) |
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