Daleae Imagines page 865 plate CXXXVI

  • Title

    Daleae Imagines page 865 plate CXXXVI

  • Creator(s)

    R. C. Barneby

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    The New York Botanical Garden Press

  • Description

    PLATE CXXXVI Dalea nana Torr., a lowly herb of dry grassland and desert hill country, widespread over much of Texas and northeastern Mexico, westward to southeastern Arizona and central Chihuahua. The mostly five-fingered leaves are gray- or silvery-pilose, the petals pale yellow turning pinkish-brown. The varieties are edaphic vicariants, var. nana (left) adapted to alluvial and wind-blown sands poor in soluble calcium, var. carnescens (Rydb.) K. & P. to base-rich soils derived from or overlying limestone. Stems × 1; the rest × 5. var. nana: 1) stem; 2) stipules; 3) leaflets; 4) bracts, ventral and dorsal views; 5) flower; 6) fruiting calyx; 7) banner, ventral and profile views; 8) wing; 9) keel; 10) androecium. var. carnescens: 11) upper part of stem; 12) lower bract, dorsal view; 13) upper bract, ventral view; 14) flower; 15) banner, ventral view; 16) keel; 17) fruiting calyx; 18) pod.

  • Taxonomy

    Dalea nana Torr. ex A.Gray

    Dalea nana Torr. ex A.Gray var. nana

    Dalea nana var. carnescens (Rydb.) Kearney & Peebles

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