Abronia bigelovii
Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 52: 197. 1909.
IllustratedEndemicConservation concern
Plants perennial, acaulescent or rarely with short branched aerial caudices, cespitose. Leaves: petiole 1–3.5 cm; blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, 1.5–8 × 0.3–0.4 cm, 5 or more times as long as wide, margins entire, plane, surfaces glabrous or puberulent. Inflorescences: bracts broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7–11 × 2–8 mm, thinly papery, glabrate to minutely glandular-puberulent; flowers 12–25. Perianth: tube greenish pink, 3–8 mm, limb pale-pink, 3–4 mm diam. Fruits winged, ± obdeltate in profile, 6–9 × 5–8 mm, scarious, apex slightly beaked; wings 5, thin walled, apex tapered to broadly obtuse, without dilations, cavities extending throughout.
Phenology: Flowering fall.
Habitat: Shrubby gypsum hills
Elevation: 1500-2000 m
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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beaked +
tapered;broadly obtuse +
glutinous +
asymmetric +
linear;narrowly oblanceolate +
succulent +
veined +
opaque +
calyxlike +
green +
translucent +
persistent +
distinct +
glabrate;minutely glandular-puberulent +
5;10 +
not accrescent +
papery +
colorful +
not showy +
large +
varying +
branched +
aerial +
absent +
foliaceous +
hollow +
interior +
broader +
N.Mex. +
scanty +
connate +
incomplete +
winged +
aerial +
obdeltate +
accessory +
scarious +
1-carpellate +
Present +
pedunculate +
capitate +
cluster +
axillary +
petiolate +
opposite +
equal +
pale-pink +
5-lobed +
plane +
expanded +
basal +
symmetric +
distal +
salverform +
constricted +
abundant +
pedicel-like +
Smithsonian Misc. Collect. +
1909 +
slightly rounded;conic +
varying +
obtuse +
tuberous +
fibrous;fleshy +
membranaceous +
connate +
wrinkled +
alternate +
included +
5;9 +
varying +
unarmed +
procumbent +
included +
filiform +
Abronia bigelovii +
Abronia +
species +
spongy +
gland-tipped +
curved +
greenish pink +
perennial +
viscid-pubescent +
walled +
thin +