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Oxystylis
Oxystylis
Family:
Cleomaceae
Flora of North America
Resources
Staria S. Vanderpool in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Herbs,
annual (unpleasantly scented).
Stems
unbranched, or sparsely branched laterally; glabrous or glabrate.
Leaves:
stipules 3-8-palmatifid, minute; petiole without pulvinus (slightly longer than leaflets); leaflets 3.
Inflorescences
axillary (from distal leaves), racemes (flat-topped); bracts present.
Flowers
actinomorphic; sepals persistent, distinct, equal (each often subtending a nectary); petals equal; stamens 6; filaments inserted on a spheroidal gynophore, glabrous; anthers (ellipsoid), coiling as pollen is released; gynophore sharply deflexed in fruit (stout, style spinelike in fruit).
Fruits
schizocarps (didymous, deflexed), indehiscent, obovoid.
Seeds
2, reniform, not arillate.
x
= 10.
Species within inventory project:
Arizona Flora
Oxystylis lutea