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|accepted_name=Mentzelia puberula
|accepted_authority=J. Darlington
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=21: 177. 1934
|year=1934
}}
|common_names=Pubescent blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia puberula
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Bartonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia puberula]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 501
|treatment_page=page 514
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices. <b>Stems</b> multiple, erect or decumbent, straight; branches along entire stem, distal longest, antrorse, upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 18.8–62.7 × 11–36 mm, widest intersinus distance 8.9–28.8 mm; proximal broadly elliptic to obovate, margins dentate to serrate, teeth 8–12, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1–4 × 1.7–6 mm; distal ovate or obovate, base not clasping, margins dentate to serrate, teeth 6–12, slightly antrorse or perpendicular to leaf axis, 1–3.5 mm; abaxial surface with complex grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 6.7–9.5(–12.6) × 2.3–5.8 mm, apex rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments narrowly spatulate, slightly clawed, 5.4–9.2(–11) × 1.3–2.7 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers twisted after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 4.1–6.8(–9) mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped, 5–9.8 × 5–8 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 3–5 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 20, 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Oct.
|habitat=Bases of steep cliffs in crevices composed of basalt, granite, and limestone, steep gravelly and sandy slopes, sandy washes.
|elevation=90–2200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Populations of <i>Mentzelia puberula</i> are associated with the Colorado River in Arizona, California, <i>Nevada</i>, and northern Mexico. Disjunct populations also occur in the Gila Mountains of Arizona.</p>
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name=Mentzelia puberula
|authority=J. Darlington
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Oct.
|habitat=Bases of steep cliffs in crevices composed of basalt, granite, and limestone, steep gravelly and sandy slopes, sandy washes.
|elevation=90–2200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1934
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia puberula
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