Acleisanthes wrightii

(A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Hemsley

Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 6. 1882.

Common names: Wright’s trumpets
Conservation concern
Basionym: Pentacrophys wrightii A. Gray Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 15: 261. 1853
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 36. Mentioned on page 34.

Plants herbaceous, overall pubescence mixture of capitate-glandular hairs 0.2–0.3 mm, and white, capitate, shorter hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. Stems erect or ascending to decumbent, much-branched, 10–40 cm, puberulent to glabrate. Leaves yellowish green, petiolate, those of pair subequal; petiole 1–15 mm, puberulent; blade oval to ovate-lanceolate or suborbiculate, 5–35 × 3–20 mm, base slightly unequal and obtuse to rounded or acute, margins crispate, apex apiculate and obtuse or infrequently acute, hirtellous to puberulent. Inflorescences solitary flowers, sessile or with pedicel to 1 mm; bracts linear-subulate, 2–8 mm, hirtellous to puberulent. Flowers: chasmogamous perianth 2.5–5 cm, puberulent to hirtellous, tube 1–1.5 mm diam., limbs 10–15 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 3–8 mm, hirtellous, stamens 2(–5). Fruits prominently 5-ribbed and deeply 5-sulcate, ribs broad, smooth, each terminating in hemispheric, glandular tubercle, tubercule oblong, truncate at both ends, 5–9 mm, puberulent.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Various soils on calcareous substrates in grasslands or shrublands
Elevation: 200-1000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Jackie M. Poole +
(A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Hemsley +
Pentacrophys wrightii +
Wright’s trumpets +
Tex. +  and Mexico (Coahuila). +
200-1000 m +
Various soils on calcareous substrates in grasslands or shrublands +
Flowering spring–fall. +
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. +
Conservation concern +
Ammocodon +  and Selinocarpus +
Acleisanthes wrightii +
Acleisanthes +
species +