Pomaria jamesii |
Pomaria austrotexana |
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false mesquite, James' holdback, James' rushpea |
Texas holdback |
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Habit | Herbs, to 50 cm; from thick, spindle-shaped taproot. | Subshrubs, decumbent at base, 15–60 cm; from thick, woody root-crown. |
Leaves | 42–75 × 25–60 mm; stipules linear to lanceolate, 4 × 5 mm, margins ± entire, pubescent, with few glandular-punctate trichomes; pinnae 5–7; leaflets 8–20 per pinna, blades oblong, 2.5–7 × 1–2.5 mm, apex rounded, surfaces densely strigose or covered with curly trichomes mixed with glandular-punctate trichomes, especially marginally and abaxially, few scattered trichomes to moderately strigose adaxially. |
55–70 × 15–30 mm; stipules filiform, 3 × 3 mm, margins ± entire to pinnatifid, densely tomentose; pinnae 5–7; leaflets 6–10 per pinna, blades oblong, 3–6 × 1–2.5 mm, apex rounded, surfaces densely, evenly pilose, with numerous glandular-punctate trichomes abaxially, moderately to densely tomentose adaxially. |
Racemes | 16–26-flowered, axillary and terminal, 12–15 cm. |
7–15-flowered, terminal, 7–12 cm. |
Flowers | usually nutant at anthesis, turbinate in outline, 6–10 × 9–10 mm; abaxial sepal 7–9 × 4 mm; lateral sepals 6–9 × 9–10 mm; sepals villous abaxially, or with scattered, short, curled, and glandular-punctate trichomes; banner bright yellow with red markings, 5–9 × 2–2.5 mm, villous in fold of claw, also with glandular-punctate trichomes abaxially on claw and on basal portion of blade; lateral petals yellow, sometimes red basally, 6–8 × 3–3.5 mm, sometimes with few glandular-punctate trichomes abaxially at base, slightly villous on inner claw. |
upright, almost bilabiate in outline, 12–20 × 6–10 mm; abaxial sepal 9 × 3 mm; lateral sepals 8 × 4 mm; abaxial sepal pilose and with short, curled trichomes on midveins and margins and mixed with evenly-sized black, glandular-punctate trichomes; banner yellow with dark red blotches, 8 × 3 mm, with small tuft of trichomes in fold of claw and very few glandular trichomes abaxially; lateral petals yellow, 8 × 4 mm, mostly glabrous. |
Legumes | decumbent, lunate in outline, 20–25 × 8–10 mm, glabrous or pilose, with scattered glandular-punctate trichomes and scattered multicellular projections to 0.4 mm, each with numerous apical trichomes, appearing stellate, primarily apically and on tip, margins densely covered with complex multicellular projections to 0.4 mm. |
upright, oblong-lanceolate in outline, 20–35 × 10 mm, pilose and with few glandular-punctate trichomes and with scattered multicellular projections less than 0.5 mm, with white trichomes radiating apically, margins pubescent with short curled trichomes and with few multicellular projections to 0.5 mm. |
Seeds | 2. |
2. |
Mature | stems yellow, striate, puberulent. |
stems reddish, ± rugose to striate, densely appressed-pubescent. |
Pomaria jamesii |
Pomaria austrotexana |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–early fall. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Grasslands, sandy or clay soils. | Deep sands. |
Elevation | 600–2300 m. (2000–7500 ft.) | 0–200 m. (0–700 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; CO; KS; MO; NM; OK; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila)
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TX; Mexico (Tamaulipas) |
Discussion | Pomaria austrotexana appears to be uncommon in southern Texas and adjacent Mexico. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Pomaria | Fabaceae > subfam. Caesalpinioideae (excluding Mimosoid clade) > Pomaria |
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Synonyms | Hoffmannseggia jamesii, Caesalpinia jamesii, H. jamesii var. popinoensis, Larrea jamesii | |
Name authority | (Torrey & A. Gray) Walpers: Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 811. (1843) | B. B. Simpson: Lundellia 1: 51, fig. 1. (1998) |
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