Marah gilensis
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 2: 36. 1910.
Common names: Gila manroot
Basionym: Megarrhiza gilensis Greene Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 8: 97. 1881
Leaf-blades deeply 5–7-lobed, 4–10 cm wide, surfaces not glaucous. Flowers: sepals (pistillate) vestigial; petals 3–4 mm (pistillate) or 3–3.5 mm (staminate), corolla white, rotate; staminodia present but very inconspicuous in pistillate flowers. Capsules yellowish green, globose to subglobose or short-ellipsoid, 2.5–3 cm, surface densely echinate, spinules rigid, 2–3 (–5) mm. Seeds 2–4, ovate to suborbiculate, slightly compressed, 10–12 mm. 2n = 30.
Phenology: Flowering (Dec–)Feb–Apr.
Habitat: Desert flats and washes, stream beds, canyon bottoms and slopes, desert scrub, chaparral, oak, riparian zones
Elevation: (500–)600–1500 m
Distribution
Ariz., N.Mex., Mexico (Sonora)
Discussion
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splitting +
suborbiculate;shallowly deeply palmately 5(-7)-lobed +
absent +
adnate +
yellowish green +
Gila manroot +
broad +
white +
rotate +
straight +
berrylike +
aculeate +
connate +
vestigial +
pistillate +
5;100 +
unisexual +
green-striped;yellowish green;orange-yellow +
dehiscent +
Desert flats and washes, stream beds, canyon bottoms and slopes, desert scrub, chaparral, oak, riparian zones +
perennial +
campanulate;cupulate +
umbellate;subumbellate +
5-7-lobed +
4cm;10cm +
alternate +
deltate;oblong-ovate or ovate +
grooved +
dentate-lobulate +
differentiated +
(2-)4(-8)-locular +
ovoid;globose +
1;4 +
erect +
greenish;greenish yellow;cream-yellow;greenish yellow;cream-yellow;white +
connate +
1/2 +
glandular-villous +
triangular;ovate or oblong-ovate +
absent +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. +
1910 +
tuberous +
globose;fusiform +
not arillate +
2;4 +
connate +
vestigial +
filiform;subulate or deltate +
several +
rigid +
connate +
absent +
absent +
inconspicuous +
annual +
trailing +
glabrous +
scabrous +
vestigial +
echinate +
not glaucous +
Marah gilensis +
Marah +
species +
absent +
not fused +
exalbuminous +
perennial +
trailing +