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long leaf sandpaper plant, narrow-leaf sandpaper plant

Parry's sandpaper plant

Habit Subshrubs, bushy, to 16 dm; branches of current season 10–38 cm. Shrubs, bushy to moundlike, to 15 dm; branches of current season to 13 cm.
Leaves

petiole 0–1 mm;

blade usually elliptic, sometimes falcate, without marked size dimorphism, to 42 × 5 mm, base acute, margins entire, apex rounded to acute.

petiole 0.5–3.5 mm;

blade ovate to elliptic, without marked size dimorphism, to 40 × 30 mm, base acute to rounded, margins usually crenate to serrate, sometimes small leaves entire, apex acute.

Inflorescences

60-flowered.

35–65-flowered.

Flowers

± radially symmetric;

petals spatulate, 5 mm, claws distinct;

stamens exserted distally (not laterally between petal claws).

strongly bilaterally symmetric;

petals spatulate, 10–15 mm, claws postgenitally distally coherent, forming slitted corolla tube;

stamens exserted laterally through slits between petal claws.

2n

= 46.

= 46.

Petalonyx linearis

Petalonyx parryi

Phenology Flowering Mar–Jun. Flowering Apr–Jul.
Habitat Sandy and gravelly canyon and arroyo bottoms, creosote bush scrub. Wash bottoms, desert plains, usually white to gray, clayey soils.
Elevation 20–1000 m. (100–3300 ft.) 400–1300 m. (1300–4300 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Sonora)
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AZ; NV; UT
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Discussion

Petalonyx linearis is found in the Sonoran Desert.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 12, p. 544. FNA vol. 12, p. 544.
Parent taxa Loasaceae > Petalonyx Loasaceae > Petalonyx
Sibling taxa
P. nitidus, P. parryi, P. thurberi
P. linearis, P. nitidus, P. thurberi
Name authority Greene: Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 188. (1885) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 72. (1874)
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