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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Abronia elliptica
|accepted_authority=A. Nelson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=26: 7. 1899
|year=1899
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Abronia fragrans var. elliptica
|authority=(A. Nelson) M. E. Jones
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Abronia nana var. harrisii
|authority=S. L. Welsh
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Abronia;Abronia elliptica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Abronia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Abronia elliptica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 63
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, sometimes nearly acaulescent. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to erect, elongate, glandular-pubescent, infrequently glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 1–4 cm; blade ovate elliptic-oblong to ovate, 1.5–6 × 0.5–3.5 cm, margins entire to sinuate, often undulate, adaxial surface glabrous or puberulent, abaxial surface thinly puberulent to pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle longer than subtending petiole; bracts ovate to obovate, 5–20 × 3–10 mm, scarious, apex obtuse to acute, glandular-pubescent to villous; flowers 25–75. <b>Perianth</b>: tube rose to greenish, 10–20 mm, limb white, 5–8 mm diam. <b>Fruits</b> broadly turbinate, apex truncate or rounded and slightly beaked, or fruit ± rhombic in profile, 5–12 × 4–8.5 mm, scarious, tapered at both ends; wings (2–)5 (often 2 on periphery of inflorescence and folded together), dilated distally and flattened perpendicular to plane of lamina, dilations longer than wide, thin walled, cavities extending throughout.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, desert grasslands, scrub
|elevation=700-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Abronia elliptica
|author=
|authority=A. Nelson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Abronia fragrans var. elliptica;Abronia nana var. harrisii
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly soils, desert grasslands, scrub
|elevation=700-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1899
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_122.xml
|genus=Abronia
|species=Abronia elliptica
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