Abronia angustifolia — Details

Abronia torreyi Standl.:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)

SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002

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Abronia angustifolia Greene:
Mexico (Mesoamerica)
United States (North America)

SPECIMEN BASED RECORD. Published protolog data. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/9990002
Anonymous. 1986. List-Based Rec., Soil Conserv. Serv., U.S.D.A. Database of the U.S.D.A., Beltsville. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1103
Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Man. Vasc. Pl. Texas i–xv, 1–1881. The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson. http://www.tropicos.org/Reference/1493

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National Distribution

United States

Origin: Unknown/Undetermined

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Physical Description

Morphology

Comments

Plants on gypsum flats and knolls of White Sands, New Mexico, are perennial, but may flower in their first season.

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Description

Plants annual (perennial). Stems decumbent to ascending, much branched, elongate, often reddish, glandular-pubescent, viscid. Leaves: petiole 1-7 cm; blade ovate-oblong to elliptic, 1-5.5 × 0.7-3 cm, margins entire to sinuate, often ± undulate, infrequently shallowly lobed, surfaces viscid-pubescent. Inflorescences: peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1-3 mm, papery, glandular-pubescent; flowers 10-30. Perianth: tube pink, 10-20 mm, limb bright magenta to pale pink, infrequently pale rose, 6-8 mm diam. Fruits broadly obdeltate in profile, 5-10 × 4-8 mm, scarious, apex narrowly tapered to a prominent beak; wings 5, extending to or slightly beyond base of beak, truncate, with conspicuous dilations, cavities extending throughout.

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Diagnostic Description

Synonym

Abronia angustifolia var. arizonica (Standley) Kearney & Peebles; A. torreyi Standley

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Type Information

Isotype for Abronia angustifolia Greene
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. O. Wooton
Year Collected: 1897
Locality: White Sands., Dona Ana, New Mexico, United States, North America
Elevation (m): 1219 to 1219

Isotype: Greene, E. L. 1898. Pittonia. 3: 344.

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Isotype: Greene, E. L. 1898. Pittonia. 3: 344.

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Holotype for Abronia torreyi Standl.
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): E. O. Wooton
Year Collected: 1897
Locality: Mesilla., Dona Ana, New Mexico, United States, North America
Elevation (m): 1189 to 1189

Holotype: Standley, P. C. 1909. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 319.

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Ecology

Habitat

Habitat & Distribution

Flowering spring-fall. Sandy soils, desert scrub; 300-1300 m; Ariz., N.Mex., Tex.; n Mexico (Chihuahua, Coahuila).

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Conservation

Conservation Status

National NatureServe Conservation Status

United States

Rounded National Status Rank: NNR - Unranked

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NatureServe Conservation Status

Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure

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