View source for Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion

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|accepted_name=Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
|accepted_authority=(Choisy) A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|place=2(1): 173. 1859
|year=1859
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Undefined sect. Quamoclidion
|authority=Choisy
|rank=section
|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=Undefined sect. Hermidium
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=section
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mirabilis sect. Paramirabilis
|authority=Heimerl
|rank=section
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mirabilis subg. Quamoclidion
|authority=(Choisy) Jepson
|rank=subgenus
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Mirabilis;Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
|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. Quamoclidion]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 40
|treatment_page=page 44
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial; roots cylindric, spongy. <b>Stems</b> erect, ascending, or nearly decumbent, densely leafy, leaves ± evenly distributed. <b>Leaves</b>: basal leaves petiolate, broader; distal leaves sessile or subsessile, narrower, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary and in compact terminal cymes; involucres slightly or not accrescent, bell-shaped or broadly tubular, with [3–](5–)6(–16) flowers, usually with 1 central flower and 1 flower on each midvein of bract, central flower solitary and naked or bracteate (when flowers more than 6, then more than 1 flower per midvein of bract). <b>Flowers</b>: perianth tubular, campanulate, or long funnelform, abruptly flared from broad tube, deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5. <b>Fruits</b> with 0 or 10 low, slender, inconspicuous ribs, ovoid to ellipsoid, base slightly or prominently constricted, apex truncate, surface of fruit smooth or rugulose, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, mucilaginous or not when wetted.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 6 (5 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=pilz1978a
|text=Pilz, G. E. 1978. Systematics of Mirabilis subgenus Quamoclidion (Nyctaginaceae). Madroño 25: 113–132.
}}
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name=Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
|authority=(Choisy) A. Gray in W. H. Emory
|rank=section
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Undefined sect. Hermidium;Mirabilis sect. Paramirabilis;Mirabilis subg. Quamoclidion
|basionyms=Undefined sect. Quamoclidion
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=sw United States;n Mexico.
|reference=pilz1978a
|publication title=in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound.
|publication year=1859
|special status=
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|genus=Mirabilis
|section=Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
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