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Polanisia dodecandra
Polanisia dodecandra
(L.) Dc.
Family:
Cleomaceae
redwhisker clammyweed,
more...
western clammyweed, clammyweed, red-whisker clammyweed, roughseed clammyweed
Max Licher
Flora of North America
General Description
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Annuals,
rarely perennials, (5-)10-60(-90+) cm.
Stems
branched; hairs stalked, glandular throughout.
Leaves:
petiole green to purple, angled, 1.5-4.5(-6) cm, glandular; leaflet blade oblanceolate to obovate or broadly elliptic, 1.9-4.5(-6.5) × 0.5-2(-3) cm, margins entire, surfaces sparsely glandular.
Racemes
(dense) 5-20 cm (10-30 cm in fruit); bracts unifoliate, lanceolate to orbiculate, 5-20 mm.
Pedicels
10-25(-40) mm.
Flowers:
sepals purple, oblong, 3-6 × 1.5-2.5 mm, margins entire, apex acuminate, glandular; petals white, pink, rose, or purple, oblong-ovate, clawed, abaxial pair (3-)5-10 × 1.8-3(-5) mm, apex emarginate to lacerate, adaxial pair 8-14 × 3-5 mm, apex emarginate; nectary glands bright orange, not conspicuous (in fruit); stamens 10-20, exserted, purple, (6-)7-28(-40) mm; anthers purple, 1-1.3 mm; gynophore 0-2 mm in fruit; ovary 5-10 mm; style deciduous in fruit, 5-17 mm; stigma purple.
Capsules
(inflated) 40-70 × 5-9 mm, reticulate, glandular.
Seeds
20-65, dark reddish brown, globose to oblong, 2-2.3 mm, roughened or tuberculate-rugose.
Plant
: Annual forb to 1 m; stems erect, branched; herbage glandular-pubescent and strong scented
Leaves
: leaves trifoliate, the leaflets elliptic or lanceolate
Flowers
: flowers whitish, stamens numerous, the filaments long-exerted
Fruit
: an elongate, flattened, erect capsule.
Notes
: petals clawed, sepals purple tinged, filiments purple, nectary bright orange, stigmas purple
References
: Kearney & Peebles; Arizona Flora. McDougall; Seed plants of Northern Arizona. A Utah Flora. ASU specimans.
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