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Texas snoutbean

praying snoutbean, rosary snoutbean

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.

Rhynchosia texana

Rhynchosia precatoria

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
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; South America; Mexico (Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Veracruz)
from FNA
AZ; FL; Central America; South America; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, Veracruz)
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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
Sibling taxa
R. americana, R. cinerea, R. cytisoides, R. difformis, R. edulis, R. latifolia, R. michauxii, R. minima, R. parvifolia, R. precatoria, R. reniformis, R. swartzii, R. tomentosa
R. americana, R. cinerea, R. cytisoides, R. difformis, R. edulis, R. latifolia, R. michauxii, R. minima, R. parvifolia, R. reniformis, R. swartzii, R. texana, R. tomentosa
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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