View source for Mirabilis linearis

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mirabilis linearis
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Heimerl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Gen ève
|place=5: 186. 1901
|year=1901
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Allionia linearis
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|publication_title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication_place=2: 728. 1814
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mirabilis hirsuta var. linearis
|authority=(Pursh) B. Boivin
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Oxybaphus linearis
|authority=(Pursh) B. L. Robinson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Mirabilis;Mirabilis sect. Oxybaphus;Mirabilis linearis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mirabilis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mirabilis sect. Oxybaphus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mirabilis linearis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 41, 50, 5
|treatment_page=page 52
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>decumbent, ascending, or erect, sparsely leafy with few stems to very leafy and bushy branched, leafy primarily in proximal 1/5 to throughout, 1–1.3 dm, basally minutely puberulent in 2 lines, sparsely or densely spreading-hirsute, or rarely glabrate or glabrous; distally minutely puberulent in 2 lines, sparsely or densely spreading-hirsute, or rarely glabrate or glabrous, usually glandular-puberulent or pubescent in inflorescence. <b>Leaves</b> strongly ascending to spreading at 5–80°; petiole 0–1.5 cm; blade green to blue-gray and glaucous, linear to linear-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate, 3–11.5 × 0.1–1(–1.8) cm, thin to fleshy, thick, and succulent, base long attenuate or narrowly acute, apex acutely tapered to rounded, surfaces glabrous, glandular-pubescent, or hirsute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and terminal, when axillary, consisting of single involucres or short branches, when terminal with ± well-defined central axis and shorter side branches, or narrowly to widely forked without main axis; peduncle 3–10 mm, usually spreading glandular-puberulent or pilose, crosswalls of hairs pale or dark; involucres pale green, sometimes tinged with purple, narrowly to widely bell-shaped, 3–6 mm in flower, 4–10(–15) mm in fruit, spreading viscid-pubescent to hirsute, 40–70% connate, lobes ovate. <b>Flowers</b> 3 per involucre; perianth white to purple-pink, 0.7–1.1 cm. <b>Fruits</b> olive brown or dark olive brown, narrowly obovate and tapering at both ends to obovoid, 3.1–5.5 mm, pubescent with spreading crinkled hairs in tufts or ± evenly distributed, hairs 0.1–0.5 mm; ribs sometimes slightly paler, slightly elevated above surface (usually less than 0.5 times as wide as high), low rounded to round-angled, 0.5–1 times width of sulci, 0.3–1 times as wide as high, smooth throughout or sometimes rugose on sides, occasionally interrupted and tuberculate near apex; sulci with small or rarely large tubercles, or low and inconspicuous or occasionally high and prominently cross-rugose.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems hirsute, at least basally
|[[Mirabilis linearis var. subhispida|Mirabilis linearis var. subhispida]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Stems minutely puberulent, glabrate, or glabrous basally
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades linear, grayish or bluish green; perianth white to deep rose-pink
|[[Mirabilis linearis var. linearis|Mirabilis linearis var. linearis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, green; perianth pink to deep purple-pink
|[[Mirabilis linearis var. decipiens|Mirabilis linearis var. decipiens]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mirabilis linearis
|authority=(Pursh) Heimerl
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Mirabilis hirsuta var. linearis;Oxybaphus linearis
|basionyms=Allionia linearis
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=North America;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Annuaire Conserv. Jard. Bot. Gen ève
|publication year=1901
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_100.xml
|genus=Mirabilis
|section=Mirabilis sect. Oxybaphus
|species=Mirabilis linearis
}}<!--

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