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|accepted_name=Mucronea perfoliata
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) A. Heller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Muhlenburgia
|place=2: 23. 1905
|year=1905
}}
|common_names=Perfoliate spineflower
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Chorizanthe perfoliata
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.
|publication_place=7: 148. 1859
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mucronea perfoliata var. opaca
|authority=Hoover
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae;Mucronea;Mucronea perfoliata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mucronea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mucronea perfoliata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 470
|treatment_page=page 471
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>(0.2–)0.3–2(–3) ×0.5–5 dm. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole inconspicuous; blade spatulate, (1–)2–5 × (0.2–)0.3–1.2(–2) cm. <b>Inflor</b>-escences: bracts 3, spreading to nearly erect, perfoliate, becoming 1-sided and weakly perfoliate apically, connate for nearly their entire length, orbiculate, 0.5–1(–2) cm, apex acute to obtuse; awns 0.3–1.2(–1.5) mm. <b>Involucres</b> 1, 4-angled, distinctly ribbed and usually corrugate, often strongly ventricose, 3–5(–6) mm; teeth 4, spreading to strongly divergent, glandular or strongly hirsute; awns straight, (0.3–)0.5–1.2 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 1; perianth 1.5–3(–3.5) mm, pubescent abaxially; tepals narrowly oblanceolate, erose or fimbriate apically, infrequently entire or 2-lobed; stamens 9; filaments 1–2.5(–3) mm; anthers 0.5–0.8(–0.9) mm. <b>Achenes</b> 2–3 mm. <b>2n</b> = 38, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, creosote bush, and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands
|elevation=100-1600(-1900) m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Mucronea perfoliata</i> is found in the Coast and Transverse ranges from Stanislaus County south to Ventura County, and in the San Joaquin Valley from Kings County south to the Tehachapi Mountains and the northwestern edge of the Mojave Desert in Kern County.</p>
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name=Mucronea perfoliata
|authority=(A. Gray) A. Heller
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Mucronea perfoliata var. opaca
|basionyms=Chorizanthe perfoliata
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Jul.
|habitat=Sandy to gravelly flats and slopes, mixed grassland, saltbush, creosote bush, and chaparral communities, pine-oak woodlands
|elevation=100-1600(-1900) m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Muhlenburgia
|publication year=1905
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Eriogonoideae
|genus=Mucronea
|species=Mucronea perfoliata
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