Tragia ramosa |
Tragia jonesii |
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branch noseburn, branch or desert or common noseburn, desert noseburn, desert tragia |
Jones' noseburn |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 1.2–5 dm. | Subshrubs, 4–5 dm. |
Stems | erect to trailing, dark green to light green, apex rarely flexuous. |
decumbent, trailing, or erect, green to gray-green, apex flexuous. |
Leaves | petiole 2–20 mm; blade linear-lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–4 × 0.5–2 cm, base truncate to weakly cordate, margins serrate, apex acute. |
petiole 3–10(–15) mm; blade ovate to triangular-ovate, 0.9–2(–3) × 0.5–1.5(–2) cm, base deeply cordate, margins serrate, apex acute. |
Inflorescences | terminal (often appearing leaf opposed), glands few, sessile, staminate flowers 2–20 per raceme; staminate bracts 1.5–2 mm. |
terminal (often appearing leaf-opposed), glands stipitate, prominent throughout, staminate flowers 10–30 per raceme; staminate bracts 0.8–1 mm. |
Pedicels | staminate 0.7–2 mm, persistent base 0.4–1.5 mm; pistillate 2–2.5 mm in fruit. |
staminate 2.2–2.4 mm, persistent base 1.8–2 mm; pistillate 7–11 mm in fruit. |
Staminate flowers | sepals 3–4, green, 1–2.2 mm; stamens 3–6(–10), filaments 0.3–1 mm. |
sepals 3–4, green, 0.9–1.1 mm; stamens 2–3, filaments 0.2–0.3 mm. |
Pistillate flowers | sepals lanceolate, 0.8–2.5 mm; styles connate 1/3–1/2 length, long-exserted; stigmas smooth to undulate. |
sepals ovate, 1.5 mm; styles connate 1/3–1/2 length; stigmas undulate to subpapillate. |
Capsules | 6–8 mm wide. |
5 mm wide. |
Seeds | dark brown, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
mottled brown-purple, 2.5–3 mm. |
2n | = 44. |
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Tragia ramosa |
Tragia jonesii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall; fruiting late spring–fall. | Flowering spring–summer; fruiting summer–fall. |
Habitat | Mesquite, desert scrub, pine-juniper, oak woodlands. | Sonoran desert scrub. |
Elevation | 200–2800 m. (700–9200 ft.) | 10-–900 m. (0-–3000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AR; AZ; CA; CO; KS; MO; NE; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, Sonora, Tamaulipas)
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AZ; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora) |
Discussion | Tragia ramosa is a variable species showing much environmental plasticity. Collections from the western United States and western Mexico have much broader leaves than those from Texas and Nuevo León, and were previously referred to as T. stylaris. Smooth stigmatic surfaces, three to six (rarely to ten) stamens, and narrow apical leaves are characters consistent with T. ramosa. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
In the flora area, Tragia jonesii is confined to Pima County in southern Arizona. Identified as T. amblyodonta in several floras, it differs from that species by its stipitate glands and twining habit. Tragia jonesii resembles T. glanduligera from southern Texas and eastern Mexico in the presence of stipitate glands, but differs in leaf blade shape and base, the number of teeth on the leaf blade margin (4–9 teeth per side in T. jonesii, 10–15 teeth per side in T. glanduligera), and the longer fruiting pedicel. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 189. | FNA vol. 12, p. 187. |
Parent taxa | Euphorbiaceae > Tragia | Euphorbiaceae > Tragia |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | T. angustifolia, T. nepetifolia var. angustifolia, T. nepetifolia var. ramosa, T. ramosa var. latifolia, T. stylaris, T. stylaris var. angustifolia, T. stylaris var. latifolia | T. scandens |
Name authority | Torrey: Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. New York 2: 245. (1827) | Radcliffe-Smith & Govaerts: Kew Bull. 52: 480. (1997) |
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