Flora of North America species comparison

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Krapovickasia

krapovickasia
Habit Herbs, perennial.
Stems

procumbent [suberect], with fine stellate pubescence and long simple hairs, not viscid.
Leaves

alternate and distichous;

stipules persistent, inconspicuous, subulate;

blade ovate-oblong [lanceolate-ovate], unlobed, base cordate, margins crenate-dentate, surfaces tomentose.
Inflorescences

axillary, solitary flowers [fasciculate];

involucel absent.
Flowers

calyx accrescent, inflated in fruit, brownish-membranous at maturity, completely enclosing fruit, lobes unribbed, ovate, stellate-hairy;

corolla white or rose;

staminal column included;

ovary 5[–9]-carpellate;

style 5[–9]-branched;

stigmas capitate.
Fruits

schizocarps, erect, not inflated, subglobose, not indurate, fragile-walled, glabrous;

mericarps 5, 1-celled, without dorsal spurs, indehiscent.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, glabrous.
x

= 8.

Krapovickasia
Distribution
from USDA
n Mexico; South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay) [Introduced, Tex.]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 4 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 274. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
K. physaloides
Synonyms Physalastrum
Name authority Fryxell: Brittonia 30: 456. (1978)
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