Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Horsfordia alata Horsfordia newberryi Iliamna rivularis Kosteletzkya depressa	Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy Linny Heagy

[Herbs] shrubs, hairy. Stems erect, stellate-tomentose or stellate-scabrous. Leaves petiolate to sessile distally; stipules deciduous, linear to subulate; blade ovate to triangular or lanceolate to included, anthers at apex; ovules 1 per cell, 1–3 per carpel; styles 6–11-branched; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarps, sometimes on reflexed, jointed pedicel, spheric to subspheric, indurate; mericarps [6–] 9 or 10 [or 11], ± 2-celled, winged, flared at papery apex, lower cell rugose, stellate-hairy, sparsely hirsute, indehiscent, endoglossum absent, upper cell smooth, dehiscent apically. Seeds 1 in rugose portion, 1 or 2 apically, sometimes abortive, glabrous or minutely hairy. x = 15.

Distribution

sw United States, nw Mexico

Discussion

Species 4 (2 in flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Horsfordia alata, Horsfordia newberryi

Key

1	Petals rose, pink, or lavender, 12–21 mm; mericarp wings lanceolate; seeds minutely scabridulous.	Horsfordia alata
1	Petals yellow or sometimes pale orange, 6–9 mm; mericarp wings ovate; seeds densely short-pubescent.	Horsfordia newberryi