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Habit Subshrubs, 1.2–5 dm.
Stems

erect to trailing, gray-green, apex often flexuous.

Leaves

petiole 4–20(–30) mm;

blade usually triangular to subhastate, sometimes ovate, 1–4.5 × 0.8–3 cm, base cordate, hastate, or truncate, margins crenate to serrate, apex acute to obtuse.

Inflorescences

terminal or axillary, glands absent, staminate flowers 5–16 per raceme;

staminate bracts 0.9–2 mm.

Pedicels

staminate 0.7–1.2 mm, persistent base 0.2–0.8 mm;

pistillate 1.5–4 mm in fruit.

Staminate flowers

sepals 3–4, green, 0.9–1.2 mm;

stamens 3–4, filaments 0.2–0.7 mm.

Pistillate flowers

sepals lanceolate, 1–2.5 mm;

styles connate to 1/3 length, short-exserted;

stigmas undulate to subpapillate.

Capsules

7–8 mm wide.

Seeds

brown with tan mottling, 2.5–3.5 mm.

2n

= 110.

Tragia amblyodonta

Phenology Flowering spring–fall; fruiting summer–late fall.
Habitat Dry, rocky, exposed slopes in xerophytic scrub.
Elevation 10–1400 m. (0–4600 ft.)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; NM; TX; Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas)
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Discussion

Tragia amblyodonta is easily distinguished from other members of Tragia by the combination of usually triangular to subhastate leaf blades, gray-green coloration, and painfully stinging hairs. Both stomata diameter and pollen grain size of T. amblyodonta are larger than in any other North American species of Tragia (K. I. Miller and G. L. Webster 1967).

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

Source FNA vol. 12, p. 186.
Parent taxa Euphorbiaceae > Tragia
Sibling taxa
T. betonicifolia, T. brevispica, T. cordata, T. glanduligera, T. jonesii, T. laciniata, T. leptophylla, T. nepetifolia, T. nigricans, T. ramosa, T. saxicola, T. smallii, T. urens, T. urticifolia
Synonyms T. nepetifolia var. amblyodonta
Name authority (Müller Arg.) Pax & K. Hoffmann: in H. G. A. Engler, Pflanzenr. 68[IV,147]: 51. (1919)
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