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|accepted_name=Abronia fragrans
|accepted_authority=Nuttall ex Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.
|place=5: 261. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Fragrant white sand-verbena
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Abronia;Abronia fragrans
|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 fragrans]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 62, 64
|treatment_page=page 63
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="plant duration"><b>Plants </b>perennial.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form;stem orientation;stem architecture;stem shape;stem coloration;stem pubescence;stem coating"><b>Stems </b>procumbent to semierect, slightly to moderately branched, elongate, sometimes reddish at base and nodes, glandular-pubescent, viscid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="petiole some measurement"><b>Leaves:</b> petiole 0.5–8 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade length;blade width;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;margin shape;adaxial surface pubescence;abaxial surface length or size;abaxial surface pubescence;abaxial surface pubescence">blade ovate to triangular or lanceolate, 3–12 × 1–8 cm, margins entire to subsinuate and slightly undulate, adaxial surface glandular-pubescent, abaxial surface more densely and longer pubescent, or sometimes villous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="peduncle length or size"><b>Inflorescences:</b> peduncle longer than subtending petiole;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="bract shape;bract shape;bract shape;bract length;bract width;bract texture;bract pubescence;bract pubescence;bract pubescence">bracts linear-lanceolate to oval-ovate, 7–25 × 2–12 mm, scarious, glandular-puberulent to short-villous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="flower count">flowers 30–80.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="tube coloration;tube coloration;tube coloration;tube some measurement;limb coloration;limb diameter;limb diameter"><b>Perianth:</b> tube greenish to reddish purple, 10–25 mm, limb white, (2–) 6–10 mm diam.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="fruit architecture;fruit architecture;fruit shape;fruit shape;wing architecture;wing architecture;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit length;fruit width;fruit texture;fruit relief;fruit architecture;fruit architecture;beak prominence;notch width;wing shape;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit shape;fruit architecture or shape;beak prominence"><b>Fruits </b>winged or not, fusiform and appearing deeply grooved when wingless, when wings not distorted, fruit ± cordate in profile, tapered at base, with prominent beak in broad notch at apex, 5–12 × 2.5–7 mm, indurate, rugose veined or, if wings distorted, fruit ± rhombic in profile and tapered at both ends, or obdeltate and truncate at apex, with prominent beak;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="wing count;wing width;wing size or width;wing shape">wings 4–5, thick, narrow, not dilated at apex, cavities extending throughout;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="peripheral fruit shape;peripheral fruit shape">peripheral fruits often distorted, S-shaped in lateral view.</span><!--

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|habitat=Dry sandy soils, scrub and grasslands
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
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name=Abronia fragrans
|author=
|authority=Nuttall ex Hooker
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|habitat=Dry sandy soils, scrub and grasslands
|elevation=400-2000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Kans.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.Mex.;N.Dak.;Okla.;S.Dak.;Tex.;Utah;Wyo.;Mexico (Chihuahua).
|reference=None
|publication title=Hooker’s J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
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|genus=Abronia
|species=Abronia fragrans
|abaxial surface length or size=longer
|abaxial surface pubescence=villous;pubescent
|adaxial surface pubescence=glandular-pubescent
|beak prominence=prominent;prominent
|blade length=3cm;12cm
|blade shape=ovate;triangular or lanceolate
|blade width=1cm;8cm
|bract length=7mm;25mm
|bract pubescence=glandular-puberulent;short-villous
|bract shape=linear-lanceolate;oval-ovate
|bract texture=scarious
|bract width=2mm;12mm
|flower count=30;80
|fruit architecture=,;veined;not;winged
|fruit architecture or shape=truncate
|fruit length=5mm;12mm
|fruit relief=rugose
|fruit shape=obdeltate;tapered;rhombic;tapered;cordate;not distorted;fusiform
|fruit texture=indurate
|fruit width=2.5mm;7mm
|limb coloration=white
|limb diameter=6mm;10mm
|margin shape=undulate;entire;subsinuate
|notch width=broad
|peduncle length or size=longer
|peripheral fruit shape=s-shaped;distorted
|petiole some measurement=0.5cm;8cm
|plant duration=perennial
|stem architecture=branched
|stem coating=viscid
|stem coloration=reddish
|stem growth form=procumbent
|stem orientation=semierect
|stem pubescence=glandular-pubescent
|stem shape=elongate
|tube coloration=greenish;reddish purple
|tube some measurement=10mm;25mm
|wing architecture=wingless;grooved
|wing count=4;5
|wing shape=not dilated;distorted
|wing size or width=narrow
|wing width=thick
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