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|accepted_name=Acleisanthes longiflora
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|place=2, 15: 260. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Angel trumpets;yerba de la rabia
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Acleisanthes;Acleisanthes longiflora
|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 longiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 31, 34
|treatment_page=page 35
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbaceous, often slightly woody at base, overall pubescence of white, capitate hairs 0.2–0.4 mm. <b>Stems</b> ascending to prostrate or sprawling, profusely branched, to 100 cm, puberulent to glabrate, occasionally hirtellous. <b>Leaves</b> grayish green, petiolate, those of pair slightly unequal; petiole 1–14 mm, puberulent to glabrate; blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate to deltate, 3–40 × 1–30 mm, base cuneate and decurrent, margins undulate or crispate, apex acuminate to acute or long attenuate, glaucous, puberulent to glabrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, rarely geminate, sessile or with pedicel to 7 mm; bracts linear-subulate, 1–7 mm, puberulent to sparsely so. <b>Flowers</b>: chasmogamous perianth with tubes 7–17 cm × 1–2 mm, puberulent to glabrate, limbs 10–20 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 5–12 mm, puberulent, stamens 5. <b>Fruits</b> with 5 hyaline ridges and pair of shallow, parallel grooves between ridges, without resinous glands, narrowly oblong, truncated at both ends, constricted 1 mm both below apex and above base, 6–10 mm, hirtellous to puberulent with capitate hairs and many to few, minute, moniliform hairs 0.2–0.4 mm, or glabrate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–Nov.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly, loamy, or sandy calcareous, gypseous, or igneous-derived soils in deserts, grasslands, shrublands, or woodlands
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;Sonora;Tamaulipas).
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name=Acleisanthes longiflora
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–Nov.
|habitat=Rocky, gravelly, loamy, or sandy calcareous, gypseous, or igneous-derived soils in deserts, grasslands, shrublands, or woodlands
|elevation=0-2500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Nuevo León;Sonora;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
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|genus=Acleisanthes
|species=Acleisanthes longiflora
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