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|accepted_name=Horsfordia
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=22: 296. 1887
|year=1887
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Horsfordia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Horsfordia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Frederick Hinsdale Horsford, 1855 – 1923, Vermont farmer and commercial seedsman, and probably also for Eben Norton Horsford, 1818 – 1893, chemist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 217
|treatment_page=page 267
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">[Herbs] shrubs, hairy. <b>Stems</b> erect, stellate-tomentose or stellate-scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate to sessile distally; stipules deciduous, linear to subulate; blade ovate to triangular or lanceolate to included, anthers at apex; ovules 1 per cell, 1–3 per carpel; styles 6–11-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, sometimes on reflexed, jointed pedicel, spheric to subspheric, indurate; mericarps [6–]9 or 10[or 11], ± 2-celled, winged, flared at papery apex, lower cell rugose, stellate-hairy, sparsely hirsute, indehiscent, endoglossum absent, upper cell smooth, dehiscent apically. <b>Seeds</b> 1 in rugose portion, 1 or 2 apically, sometimes abortive, glabrous or minutely hairy. <b>x</b> = 15.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (2 in flora).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals rose, pink, or lavender, 12–21 mm; mericarp wings lanceolate; seeds minutely scabridulous.
|[[Horsfordia alata|Horsfordia alata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Petals yellow or sometimes pale orange, 6–9 mm; mericarp wings ovate; seeds densely short-pubescent.
|[[Horsfordia newberryi|Horsfordia newberryi]]
|}
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name=Horsfordia
|author=John La Duke
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1887
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Horsfordia
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