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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Hybanthus attenuatus
|accepted_authority=(Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) Schulze-Menz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem
|place=12: 114. 1934
|year=1934
}}
|common_names=Western green-violet
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Ionidium attenuatum
|authority=Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Violaceae;Hybanthus;Hybanthus attenuatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Violaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hybanthus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Hybanthus attenuatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 109
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbs, annual, 11–46 cm, from taproot. <b>Stems</b> 1, erect, often purple mottled, simple to much-branched, glabrous or pilose (especially distal half). <b>Leaves</b>: proximal opposite or subopposite, distal mostly alternate, petiolate; stipules linear [narrowly ovate], 1–5 mm, glabrous [ciliate]; petiole (3–)4–7 mm; blade elliptic to lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 1.5–7(–10.5) × 0.3–2.5 cm, base attenuate, margins usually serrate, sometimes crenate, ciliate, apex attenuate to acuminate, surfaces coarsely glabrous or coarsely hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1- or 2(–4)-flowered (often with 1 or 2 aborting); peduncle erect to horizontal at anthesis, usually erect in fruit, 2–20 mm, puberulent; bracteoles present. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals usually appressed to corolla, lanceolate, margins usually ciliate, apex acuminate; petals: upper white proximally, ovate-lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 2.5–3.5 mm, apex lilac to deep reddish violet, deltate, usually glabrous; laterals white or purple-tinged, ovate-lanceolate, inequilateral, ± falcate, 0.5–2 mm, usually glabrous; lowest white or violet with basal purple patch, 8–12 mm, claw 4–5 × 1–2 mm, distal limb broadly angular-deltate or -elliptic, ± flat to convex at anthesis, 4–7 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded, glabrous or scarcely pubescent on adaxial surface; cleistogamous flowers on short peduncles. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, 4–6 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 6, dark brown to black with white to gray mottling, globose or ovoid to ± flattened with angular edges, 1.5–2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 24, 32.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Shaded areas, canyons, near water
|elevation=1100–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia (Indonesia).
|discussion=<p><i>Hybanthus attenuatus</i> has been reported as a fast-growing, common weed in crops, humid pastures, and waste places in Central America (M. Soerjani et al. 1987). It has been found in rice paddies in central Java (Soerjani et al.; B. M. Waterhouse and A. A. Mitchell 1998).</p>
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name=Hybanthus attenuatus
|author=
|authority=(Humboldt & Bonpland ex Willdenow) Schulze-Menz
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Ionidium attenuatum
|family=Violaceae
|phenology=Flowering Aug–Oct.
|habitat=Shaded areas, canyons, near water
|elevation=1100–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America;South America;introduced in Asia (Indonesia).
|reference=None
|publication title=Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem
|publication year=1934
|special status=
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|genus=Hybanthus
|species=Hybanthus attenuatus
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