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.
 TaxonIllustrator 
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 +