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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Acleisanthes obtusa
|accepted_authority=(Choisy) Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=12: 371. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Berlandier’s trumpets
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Nyctaginia obtusa
|authority=Choisy
|rank=species
|publication_title=in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr.
|publication_place=13(2): 429. 1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Acleisanthes berlandieri
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Acleisanthes greggii
|authority=Standley
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Acleisanthes;Acleisanthes obtusa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acleisanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Acleisanthes obtusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 34
|treatment_page=page 35
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbaceous, often woody at base, overall pubescence of white, capitate hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or spreading, much branched, to more than 100 cm, hirtellous to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> grayish green, sessile or petiolate, those of pair slightly unequal; petiole to 25 mm, hirtellous to glabrate; blade deltate to deltate-ovate, 2–30(–45) × 2–35(–50) mm, base truncate to subcordate or rounded and short decurrent, margins flat or slightly undulate, apex acute to broadly rounded and often apiculate, puberulent to glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers or 2–5-flowered cymes, sessile or with pedicel to 5 mm; bracts linear-subulate, 1–7 mm, puberulent, usually sparsely so. <b>Flowers</b>: chasmogamous perianth 2.5–5.5 cm, sparsely puberulent, tube 1–2 mm diam., limbs 13–25 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 3–12 mm, puberulent, stamens 5. <b>Fruits</b> 5-ribbed with pair of parallel grooves between ribs, each rib and pair of grooves ending at summit in inconspicuous, glandless knob, oblong, truncate at both ends, often constricted ca. 1 mm above base and below apex, 5–8 mm, hirtellous to sparsely puberulent with capitate hairs and with few, scattered, moniliform hairs 0.2–0.3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Sandy, silty, or clay soils on calcareous or igneous substrates in grasslands, shrublands, or woodlands
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=Tex.;s to c Mexico.
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|references=
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name=Acleisanthes obtusa
|authority=(Choisy) Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Acleisanthes berlandieri;Acleisanthes greggii
|basionyms=Nyctaginia obtusa
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Sandy, silty, or clay soils on calcareous or igneous substrates in grasslands, shrublands, or woodlands
|elevation=0-1800 m
|distribution=Tex.;s to c Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1909
|special status=
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|genus=Acleisanthes
|species=Acleisanthes obtusa
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