Tragia smallii |
Tragia jonesii |
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Small's noseburn |
Jones' noseburn |
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Habit | Herbs or subshrubs, 1.2–2.5 dm. | Subshrubs, 4–5 dm. |
Stems | erect, purple-green, apex never flexuous. |
decumbent, trailing, or erect, green to gray-green, apex flexuous. |
Leaves | petiole 1–4 mm; blade orbiculate to elliptic, 2–5 × 0.8–3 cm, base acute, margins serrate to crenate, apex acute to blunt. |
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 absent, staminate flowers 4–11 per raceme; staminate bracts 0.8–1.2 mm. |
terminal (often appearing leaf-opposed), glands stipitate, prominent throughout, staminate flowers 10–30 per raceme; staminate bracts 0.8–1 mm. |
Pedicels | staminate 1.5–1.9 mm, persistent base 0.4–0.6 mm; pistillate 2.8–3.4 mm in fruit. |
staminate 2.2–2.4 mm, persistent base 1.8–2 mm; pistillate 7–11 mm in fruit. |
Staminate flowers | sepals 4–5, green, 0.9–1.5 mm; stamens 2, filaments 0.2–0.5 mm. |
sepals 3–4, green, 0.9–1.1 mm; stamens 2–3, filaments 0.2–0.3 mm. |
Pistillate flowers | sepals lanceolate, 1.3–2.3 mm; styles connate 1/4 length; stigmas undulate. |
sepals ovate, 1.5 mm; styles connate 1/3–1/2 length; stigmas undulate to subpapillate. |
Capsules | 9–13 mm wide. |
5 mm wide. |
Seeds | dark brown with light brown streaks, 4–4.5 mm. |
mottled brown-purple, 2.5–3 mm. |
2n | = 44. |
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Tragia smallii |
Tragia jonesii |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer; fruiting summer–fall. | Flowering spring–summer; fruiting summer–fall. |
Habitat | Dry, sandy oak-pine forests, prairies, disturbed grasslands. | Sonoran desert scrub. |
Elevation | 0–100 m. (0–300 ft.) | 10-–900 m. (0-–3000 ft.) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; LA; MS; TX |
AZ; Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora) |
Discussion | Plants of Tragia smallii are easily distinguished from those of most Tragia species by the combination of orbiculate to elliptic leaf blades, two stamens, and relatively large seeds. K. I. Miller and G. L. Webster (1967) placed it and T. urens, which also has two stamens, in sect. Leptobotrys. Tragia smallii is found on the Gulf Coastal Plain from eastern most Texas to peninsular Florida. (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. 190. | FNA vol. 12, p. 187. |
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Synonyms | T. scandens | |
Name authority | Shinners: Field & Lab. 24: 37. (1956) | Radcliffe-Smith & Govaerts: Kew Bull. 52: 480. (1997) |
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