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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Telesonix
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Tellur.
|place=2: 69. 1837 ,
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Saxifragaceae;Telesonix
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Saxifragaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Telesonix]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek, teleos, complete, and onyx, claw, alluding to petals
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 48, 120, 132
|treatment_page=page 116
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism architecture;whole_organism architecture;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> rhizomatous, not stoloniferous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="rhizome architecture;rhizome architecture or pubescence">rhizome branched, scaly.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="flowering-stem orientation;flowering-stem architecture;flowering-stem some measurement;flowering-stem pubescence;flowering-stem pubescence"><b>Flowering-</b>stems erect, leafy, 3–23 cm, densely stipitate-glandular and eglandular-pubescent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf position"><b>Leaves </b>in basal rosettes and cauline;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="cauline leaf size">cauline reduced distally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="stipule size">stipules expanded from petiole base;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="petiole pubescence">petiole stipitate-glandular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;base shape;ultimate margin size or quantity;ultimate margin size or quantity;surface pubescence">blade usually reniform, sometimes orbiculate-cordate, sometimes lobed, base cordate, ultimate margins 1–2 times crenate, apex rounded, surfaces stipitate-glandular, adaxial surface ± smooth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="adaxial surface architecture or pubescence or relief;adaxial surface architecture">venation palmate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="inflorescence position or structure subtype;panicle shape;panicle position or structure subtype;cyme shape;cyme architecture;cyme position or structure subtype;branch architecture;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form;flower architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>cylindric panicles or simple cymes, terminal from terminal bud in rosette, branches 2–3-flowered, sometimes flowers solitary, bracteate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="flower architecture or shape"><b>Flowers </b>± radially symmetric;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="hypanthium fusion;hypanthium quantity;hypanthium fusion;hypanthium coloration;hypanthium coloration;ovary some measurement">hypanthium adnate to 1/4–1/2 of ovary, free from ovary 1–3.5 mm, purplish, sometimes green;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal coloration">sepals 5, purplish green;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="petal quantity;petal coloration or density">petals 5, crimson-purple to violet-purple;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="style tissue coloration">nectary tissue green, encircling base of styles at junction of ovary and free-hypanthium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 10;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="filament shape">filaments linear to subulate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="ovary quantity;ovary position;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary 1/2 inferior, 2-locular, carpels connate in proximal 1/2;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="carpel fusion;carpel placentation">placentation axile;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="style quantity">styles 2;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="stigma quantity">stigmas 2.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="capsule architecture or shape"><b>Capsules </b>2-beaked.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>brown, oblong, smooth.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="seed coloration;seed shape;seed architecture or pubescence or relief;x chromosome quantity">x = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=wc North America
|discussion=<p>Boykinia Nuttall sect. Telesonix (Rafinesque) Gornall & Bohm</p><!--
--><p>Species 2 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals crimson-purple, length at least 1.75 times sepals; styles connate ca. 3/4 their lengths.
|[[Telesonix jamesii|Telesonix jamesii]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals violet-purple, length ca. 1.3 times sepals; styles connate ca. 1/2 their lengths.
|[[Telesonix heucheriformis|Telesonix heucheriformis]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Telesonix
|author=Richard J. Gornall
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Saxifragaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=wc North America
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Tellur.
|publication year=
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V8/V8_231.xml
|genus=Telesonix
|adaxial surface architecture=palmate
|adaxial surface architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|base shape=cordate
|blade shape=lobed;orbiculate-cordate;reniform
|branch architecture=2-3-flowered
|capsule architecture or shape=2-beaked
|carpel fusion=connate
|carpel placentation=axile
|cauline leaf size=reduced
|cyme architecture=simple
|cyme position or structure subtype=terminal
|cyme shape=cylindric
|filament shape=linear;subulate
|flower architecture=bracteate
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|flower architecture or shape=symmetric
|flowering-stem architecture=leafy
|flowering-stem orientation=erect
|flowering-stem pubescence=eglandular-pubescent;stipitate-glandular
|flowering-stem some measurement=3cm;23cm
|hypanthium coloration=green;purplish
|hypanthium fusion=free;adnate
|hypanthium quantity=0;1/4-1/2
|inflorescence position or structure subtype=terminal
|leaf position=cauline
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=2-locular
|ovary position=inferior
|ovary quantity=1/2
|ovary some measurement=1mm;3.5mm
|panicle position or structure subtype=terminal
|panicle shape=cylindric
|petal coloration or density=crimson-purple;violet-purple
|petal quantity=5
|petiole pubescence=stipitate-glandular
|rhizome architecture=branched
|rhizome architecture or pubescence=scaly
|seed architecture or pubescence or relief=smooth
|seed coloration=brown
|seed shape=oblong
|sepal coloration=purplish green
|sepal quantity=5
|stamen quantity=10
|stigma quantity=2
|stipule size=expanded
|style quantity=2
|style tissue coloration=green
|surface pubescence=stipitate-glandular
|ultimate margin size or quantity=1-2 times crenate apex rounded;1-2 times crenate apex rounded
|whole_organism architecture=not stoloniferous;rhizomatous
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=7
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