Flora of North America species comparison

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Fryxellia

fryxellwort
Habit Herbs, perennial, stellate-hairy.
Stems

cespitose.
Leaves

stipules persistent, filiform to subulate;

petiole subequal to or somewhat shorter than blade;

blade ovate to oblong-lanceolate, unlobed, base subcordate to obtuse, margins toothed, apex acute or obtuse, without foliar nectaries.
Inflorescences

axillary, solitary flowers, ± equaling leaves;

apex;

filaments terminal and subterminal;

ovary 12-carpellate;

ovules 1 in each lower carpel cell, pendulous;

styles 12-branched, (branches equal in number to carpels);

stigmas capitate.
Fruits

schizocarps, not inflated, discoid, moderately indurate, stellate-hairy;

mericarps 12, 1-celled, divided internally by endoglossum;

distal cell reduced, barren, smooth-walled, hairy, each valve armed with suberect dorsal spur;

proximal cell enclosing pendulous seed, reticulate-fenestrate, indehiscent, joined to columella by single median basal-dorsal vein.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, puberulent about raphe.
x

= 8.

Fryxellia
Distribution
from FNA
TX; n Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 1.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 248. Author: David M. Bates.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
F. pygmaea
Name authority D. M. Bates: Brittonia 26: 95, fig. 1A. (1974)
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