Acleisanthes wrightii

(A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Hemsley

Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 6. 1882.

Common names: Wright’s trumpets
Conservation concern
Basionym: Pentacrophys wrightii A. Gray Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 15: 261. 1853
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 4. Treatment on page 36. Mentioned on page 34.

Plants herbaceous, overall pubescence mixture of capitate-glandular hairs 0.2–0.3 mm, and white, capitate, shorter hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. Stems erect or ascending to decumbent, much-branched, 10–40 cm, puberulent to glabrate. Leaves yellowish green, petiolate, those of pair subequal; petiole 1–15 mm, puberulent; blade oval to ovatelanceolate or suborbiculate, 5–35 × 3–20 mm, base slightly unequal and obtuse to rounded or acute, margins crispate, apex apiculate and obtuse or infrequently acute, hirtellous to puberulent. Inflorescences solitary flowers, sessile or with pedicel to 1 mm; bracts linear-subulate, 2–8 mm, hirtellous to puberulent. Flowers: chasmogamous perianth 2.5–5 cm, puberulent to hirtellous, tube 1–1.5 mm diam., limbs 10–15 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 3–8 mm, hirtellous, stamens 2 (–5). Fruits prominently 5-ribbed and deeply 5-sulcate, ribs broad, smooth, each terminating in hemispheric, glandular tubercle, tubercule oblong, truncate at both ends, 5–9 mm, puberulent.


Phenology: Flowering spring–fall.
Habitat: Various soils on calcareous substrates in grasslands or shrublands
Elevation: 200-1000 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"thick" is not a number.

... more about "Acleisanthes wrightii"
hirtellous;puberulent +
acute;obtuse +
Jackie M. Poole +
(A. Gray) Bentham & Hooker f. ex Hemsley +
glutinous +
symmetric +  and asymmetric +
obtuse +  and rounded or acute +
unequal +
woody +, leathery +  and fleshy +
Pentacrophys wrightii +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
oval;ovatelanceolate or suborbiculate +
succulent +  and fleshy +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
persistent +
distinct +
hirtellous;puberulent +
linear-subulate +
minute +, small +  and not accrescent +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
corollalike +  and petaloid +
Wright’s trumpets +
pedicellate +, short +, sessile +  and few-flowered +
Tex. +  and Mexico (Coahuila) +
200-1000 m +
curved +  and straight +
pedicellate +, short +  and sessile +
inconspicuous +  and showy +
1 +  and 80 +
cleistogamous +, chasmogamous +  and bisexual +
puberulent +, glabrous +  and smooth +
ellipsoid +  and oblong +
coriaceous +
Various soils on calcareous substrates in grasslands or shrublands +
with pedicel +  and sessile +
axillary +  and terminal +
yellowish green +
subequal +
succulent +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
5-lobed +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
crispate +
expanded +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (?) +
hirtellous +  and puberulent +
cleistogamous +  and chasmogamous +
constricted +, short +  and elongate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
Flowering spring–fall. +
Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. +
rounded +
thick +  and thin +
fibrous;fleshy +
membranaceous +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br />) +
ribbed +, 10-ribbed +  and 5-ribbed +
pubescent +, glabrous +  and warty +
wrinkled +
Conservation concern +
much-branched +
ascending +  and decumbent +
puberulent +  and glabrate +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
woody +  and herbaceous +
fusiform +  and linear +
filiform +
Ammocodon +  and Selinocarpus +
Acleisanthes wrightii +
Acleisanthes +
species +
gland-tipped +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (?) +  and 0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (?) +
domelike +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
0.2mm +  and 0.3mm +
coriaceous +