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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Krameria
|accepted_authority=Loefling
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Iter Hispan.,
|place=176, 195, 231. 1758
|year=1758
}}
|common_names=Rhatany or ratany
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Krameriaceae;Krameria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Krameriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Krameria]]</div></div>
|etymology=For either Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer, 1684–1744, Austrian Army physician and botanist, or his son William Heinrich Kramer, d. 1765, Austrian physician and naturalist, or both
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 24
|treatment_page=page 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>consisting of long shoots only or long and short shoots, canescent, strigose, or villous; bark gray or brown. <b>Leaves</b>: blade linear to ovate, ape\× mucronate, acute, or obtuse, surfaces canescent, strigose, or villous, sometimes with stalked glandular hairs. <b>Inflorescences</b> with leafy bracts. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals purple, pink, or magenta [yellow or brown], lanceolate to ovate or oblong; petals smaller than sepals, secretory petals pink, red, red-brown, green, yellow, purple, or orange, orbiculate to cuneate, petaloid petals green or yellow with expanded distal portions partially purple or pink; stamens pink, green, or white, didynamous or equal; ovary strigose or tomentose; style curved, red, pink, or greenish white, glabrous; stigma recessed. <b>Capsules</b> globose or slightly compressed laterally, circular or cordate in outline with longitudinal ridge across 1 or both faces; spines slender to stout, glabrous or hairy proximally, smooth or with retrorse or recurved barbs distally. <b>Seeds</b> brown. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 18 (4 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Herbs, decumbent; inflorescences terminal, secund racemes; stamens equal.
|[[Krameria lanceolata|Krameria lanceolata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Shrubs, erect; inflorescences axillary, solitary flowers; stamens didynamous.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals reflexed; secretory petals with oil-filled blisters covering outer surfaces; petaloid petals distinct, narrowly oblanceolate; spines on capsules slender, bearing unicellular hairs basally and amber-colored recurved barbs to 1 mm near tip.
|[[Krameria bicolor|Krameria bicolor]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Sepals ± cupped inward or around petals and gynoecium; secretory petals with oil-filled blisters mostly on distal portions of outer surfaces; petaloid petals connate basally, free portions oblanceolate to reniform; spines on capsules stout, usually bearing curved multicellular hairs on basal 1/2 and retrorse barbs near tip, or glabrous, sometimes with minute serrations near tip.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Shrubs 1–2 m; leaf blades linear to linear-lanceolate, sometimes with multicellular, stipitate, glandular hairs; styles pink; spines on capsules 2–5 mm.
|[[Krameria erecta|Krameria erecta]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Shrubs 0.3–1 m; leaf blades linear to ovate, lacking glandular hairs; styles greenish white; spines on caspules 0.5–1.5 mm.
|[[Krameria ramosissima|Krameria ramosissima]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Krameria
|authority=Loefling
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Krameriaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Iter Hispan.,
|publication year=1758
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_761.xml
|genus=Krameria
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