View source for Allionia incarnata

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|accepted_name=Allionia incarnata
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 890. 1759
|year=1759
}}
|common_names=Allionia;hierba de la hormiga;pink three-flower;pink windmills;trailing allionia;trailing four-o’clock;trailing windmills;umbrella-wort
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wedelia incarnata
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kuntze
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wedeliella incarnta
|authority=(Linnaeus) Cockerell
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Allionia;Allionia incarnata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Allionia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Allionia incarnata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 58, 60
|treatment_page=page 59
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, sometimes annual, sparingly glandular puberulent to spreading viscid-villous. <b>Stems</b> often reddish, 0.1–1.5 m. <b>Leaves</b> progressively reduced distally; distal leaves proportionately narrower than proximal; larger leaves: petiole 2–25 mm, equaling or shorter than blade; blade usually flat, sometimes undulate, 20–65 × 10–35 mm, base often oblique, obtuse, or round, margins entire or sinuate, apex acute, sometimes obtuse or round. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncle 3–25(–30) mm, involucres ovoid when mature, 4–6.5(–9) mm. <b>Perianth</b> deep pink to magenta, 5–15 mm. <b>Fruits</b> deeply convex, 2.9–4.7 × 1.5–2.8 mm; lateral ribs with 0–4 teeth, teeth usually broadly (rarely narrowly) triangular, never gland tipped, or edge of fruit wings entire or with only irregular undulations and incisions, concave side of fruit with 4–7 glands per row (glands rarely continuous or 2 rows glandless); stalks equaling or shorter than diameter of glandular head.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Allionia incarnata</i> was used by indigenous peoples to treat swellings, was added to baths to reduce fever, and also prepared as a decoction to treat diarrhea and kidney ailments (S. Cheatham et al. 1995, vol. 1). Occasionally fruits of <i>A. incarnata</i> are shallowly convex and resemble, in this respect, the fruits of <i>A. choisyi</i>.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial perianth limb 3-8(-10) mm; flower cluster 5-10(-12) mm diam. in anthesis; fruits 3-5 mm
|[[Allionia incarnata var. incarnata|Allionia incarnata var. incarnata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Abaxial perianth limb 10-15 mm; flower cluster 20-25 mm diam. in anthesis; fruits mostly 4-6 mm
|[[Allionia incarnata var. villosa|Allionia incarnata var. villosa]]
|}
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name=Allionia incarnata
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Wedelia incarnata;Wedeliella incarnta
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=
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|genus=Allionia
|species=Allionia incarnata
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