Rhynchosia texana |
Rhynchosia precatoria |
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Texas snoutbean |
praying snoutbean, rosary snoutbean |
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Habit | Herbs. | Subshrubs. |
Stems | usually prostrate or twining, rarely subascending, puberulent to strigulose or villosulous, hairs silvery. |
sprawling or twining, gland-dotted, rarely viscid, villous or villosulous, hairs silvery or grayish and silvery intermixed. |
Leaves | trifoliolate; stipules persistent, linear or linear-lanceolate, 1.5–3 × 0.5 mm, acute to acuminate; petiole 5–35 mm, puberulous, strigulose, or villosulous; leaflet blades lanceolate-ovate, 5–45 × 20–25 mm, leathery, gland-dotted, base obtuse or subcordate, margins revolute, apex acute or obtuse, surfaces puberulent, strigulose, or villosulous. |
trifoliolate; stipules early deciduous, ovate or lanceolate, 4–6 × 1.5–2 mm, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces villosulous; petiole 1–7 mm, rarely viscid, villous or villosulous; leaflet blades obovate to ovate-lanceolate or ovate-rhombic to rhombic, 20–130 × 15–100 mm, leathery, gland-dotted, base rounded to obtuse or cuneate, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces villous or villosulous abaxially, villous or villosulous adaxially, rarely glabrescent. |
Inflorescences | 1(2 or 3) simple flowers per axil, shorter than leaves, 0.6–1.5 cm. |
racemes, longer than leaves, 5–30 cm. |
Pedicels | 1–6 mm. |
1–2 mm. |
Flowers | calyx 3–5 mm, villous or villosulous, tube 1.5–2.5 mm, lobes subulate, laterals 1–3.5 mm, lengths to 2.5 times tube, adaxials 0.5–2 mm; corolla yellow, veined brown; banner widely ovate, 5–7 × 3.5–5 mm, apex emarginate, puberulent; wings oblong to ovate, 5–6 × 1–2 mm, glabrous; keel 5–6.5 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; stamens 4–6 mm. |
calyx 4–5 mm, villosulous, often viscid, tube 2–2.5 mm, lobes lanceolate, laterals 2–3 mm, lengths to 2.5 times tube, adaxials 1–1.5 mm; corolla green-yellow, streaked purple or brown; banner orbiculate, 8–9 × 6–7 mm, emarginate, villosulous, gland-dotted; wings oblong, 6–7 × 2–2.5 mm, often gland-dotted, puberulent apically; keel 6–8 × 3–3.5 mm, puberulent apically; stamens 8–9 mm. |
Legumes | oblong, compressed, 15–25 × 4–6 mm, puberulent-hirtellous, hairs intermixed. |
brown or greenish, widely ovoid-oblong, subinflated, constricted, 20–30 × 7–12 mm, gland-dotted, rarely viscid, densely villosulous to puberulent. |
Seeds | brown, black or mottled, subglobose, compressed, 3–4 × 3–4 mm. |
red and black, subglobose to ovoid, plump, 5–8 × 4–6 mm. |
2n | = 22. |
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Rhynchosia texana |
Rhynchosia precatoria |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Dry limestone, sandy or igneous soils, grasslands, canyons, mountain slopes, roadsides, forest clearings. | Sandy soils or limestone, open areas, thickets, forests. |
Elevation | 40–2700 m. (100–8900 ft.) | (0–20) or 600–1200 m. ((0–100) or 2000–3900 ft.) |
Distribution |
AZ; NM; TX; South America; Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz) |
AZ; FL; Central America; South America; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Veracruz) |
Discussion | Rhynchosia angustifolia Engelmann ex A. Gray is an illegitimate name that pertains here. Dolicholus texensis Vail and its var. angustifolius (A. Gray) Vail are illegitimate and superfluous names that also pertain here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Rhynchosia precatoria is native in Santa Cruz County, Arizona; it is considered introduced in Florida, where it is found in Miami-Dade County. Glycine precatoria Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow is a superfluous and illegitimate name that pertains here. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 11. | FNA vol. 11. |
Parent taxa | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Rhynchosia | Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Rhynchosia |
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Synonyms | R. senna var. angustifolia, R. senna var. cordobensis, R. senna var. texana, R. texana var. angustifolia, R. texana var. microphylla | Dolicholus vailiae, Indigofera volubilis, R. bicolor |
Name authority | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 687. (1840) | de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 385. (1825) |
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