Modiola |
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bristlemallow |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial, usually glabrate. |
Stems | procumbent, not viscid, sometimes with few simple hairs on herbage. |
Leaves | stipules persistent, ovate; blade orbiculate, usually palmately 5–7- ribbed, narrowly triangular; corolla wide-campanulate, salmon-orange, often with darker center, drying brick red; staminal column included; ovary 16–22-carpellate; ovules 1 per cell; style 16–22-branched; stigmas capitate. |
Fruits | schizocarps, erect, not inflated, flattened disc indented in center, not indurate, setose; mericarps 16–22, 2-celled, dorsally setose, laterally glabrous, with 2 apical spurs/spines, chamber divided by endoglossum or partial septum, lower cell strongly rugose, indehiscent, upper cell smoother, dehiscent. |
Seeds | 1 per cell, rounded, with proximal notch, sparsely, minutely hairy. |
x | = 9. |
Modiola |
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Distribution |
Mexico; Central America; West Indies; South America (to n Argentina); Europe [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Species 1. Modiola is undoubtedly adventive over much of its range and possibly native only in northern Argentina and the Paraná basin of South America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 303. |
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Synonyms | Abutilodes, Diadesma, Modanthos |
Name authority | Moench: Methodus, 619. (1794) |
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