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Texas snoutbean

swartz's snoutbean

Habit Herbs. Herbs or subshrubs.
Stems

usually prostrate or twining, rarely subascending, puberulent to strigulose or villosulous, hairs silvery.

trailing or twining, gland-dotted, soft-hirsute, hairs silvery.

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 persistent, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 3–4 × 0.5–1.5 mm, acuminate, surfaces hirtellous;

petiole 10–60 mm, hirsute;

leaflet blades ovate, 20–60 × 15–45 mm, membranous, gland-dotted abaxially, base obtuse, rounded, or truncate, apex acute or long-acuminate, surfaces hirsute abaxially, glabrous or hirsute adaxially.

Inflorescences

1(2 or 3) simple flowers per axil, shorter than leaves, 0.6–1.5 cm.

racemes, longer than leaves, 1–6 cm.

Pedicels

1–6 mm.

filiform, 2–4 mm, viscid.

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 3.5–5 mm, hirsute-viscid, tube 2.5–5 mm, lobes broadly lanceolate, laterals 1.5–2 mm, lengths to 2.5 times tube, adaxials 0.5–1 mm;

corolla yellow;

banner obovate, 5–8 × 3–4.5 mm, marginate, puberulent, gland-dotted;

wings oblong, 4–5 × 1–1.5 mm, glabrous;

keel 4.5–5 × 2-2.5 mm, glabrous;

stamens 3.5–5 mm.

Legumes

oblong, compressed, 15–25 × 4–6 mm, puberulent-hirtellous, hairs intermixed.

brown, acinaciform, compressed, 25–40 × 5–9 mm, tapered toward base, densely puberulent, hairs long, scattered.

Seeds

brown, black or mottled, subglobose, compressed, 3–4 × 3–4 mm.

brown to red, reniform, barely compressed, 4–6 × 3–3.5 mm.

2n

= 22.

Rhynchosia texana

Rhynchosia swartzii

Phenology Flowering spring–summer. Flowering spring.
Habitat Dry limestone, sandy or igneous soils, grasslands, canyons, mountain slopes, roadsides, forest clearings. Sandy soils, hammocks, thickets, open woods, pastures, roadsides.
Elevation 40–2700 m. (100–8900 ft.) 0–10 m. (0–0 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
FL; s Mexico; West Indies (Bahamas, Greater Antilles)
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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.)

In the flora area, Rhynchosia swartzii is found in Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

(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. precatoria, R. reniformis, 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 swartzii, R. gundlachii
Name authority Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 687. (1840) (Vail) Urban: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 320. (1918)
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