Wislizenia refracta |
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Jack ass clover, spectacle fruit |
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Habit | Annuals, 40–200 cm. |
Stems | glabrous or glabrate (sometimes smooth when dry). |
Leaves | petiole 0.2–3.1 cm; leaflets 3, green, blade ovate or obovate, (0.4–)1–4.9 × 0.4–2 cm, 1.5–4(–5.5) times as long as wide, margins entire, apex acute to rounded. |
Racemes | 1–1.5 cm (2–3 cm in fruit). |
Flowers | sepals green, lanceolate, 0.4–1.7 × 0.2–0.7 mm, more than 1.75 times as long as wide, margins entire, glabrous; petals yellow, oblong, 1.4–4.6 × 0.5–1.8 mm; stamens yellow, 2–6 mm; anthers 0.5–1.7 mm; gynophore (reflexed in fruit), 2–12 mm in fruit, usually shorter than pedicel. |
Seeds | 0.5 × 0.3 mm. |
Schizocarps | 1.2–3.3 × 1 mm. |
2n | = 40. |
Wislizenia refracta |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–fall. |
Habitat | Dry sandy flats, desert scrub, roadsides |
Elevation | 500-2400 m (1600-7900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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Discussion | Wislizenia refracta is known from trans-Pecos Texas, and from the Mojave Desert (San Bernardino County and Little San Bernardino Mountains in Riverside County) in California. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 7, p. 214. |
Parent taxa | Cleomaceae > Wislizenia |
Sibling taxa | |
Synonyms | W. costellata, W. melilotoides, W. refracta var. melilotoides, W. scabrida |
Name authority | Engelmann: in F. A. Wislizenus, Mem. Tour N. Mexico, 99. (1848) |
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