Horsfordia

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 296. 1887.

Etymology: For Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, 1855 – 1923, Vermont farmer and commercial seedsman, and probably also for Eben Norton Horsford, 1818 – 1893, chemist
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 267. Mentioned on page 215, 217.
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FNA6 P31 Horsfordia alata.jpegHorsfordia 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.

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
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John La Duke +
A. Gray +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
ovate +  and triangular or lanceolate +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
sw United States +  and nw Mexico +
sparse;copious +
For Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, 1855 – 1923, Vermont farmer and commercial seedsman, and probably also for Eben Norton Horsford, 1818 – 1893, chemist +
pistillate +  and staminate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
spheric +  and subspheric +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
petiolate +  and sessile +
distichous +  and alternate +
hirsute +  and stellate-hairy +
entire +  and serrate +
winged +  and 2-celled +
3-40-carpellate +
adnate +  and distinct +
2 +  and 1 +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
hairy +  and glabrous +
reniform +
persistent +
sessile +  and subsessile +
stellate-scabrous +  and stellate-tomentose +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
linear +  and subulate +
6-11-branched +
Mallow +
Horsfordia +
Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +