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|accepted_name=Mirabilis austrotexana
|accepted_authority=B. L. Turner
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Phytologia
|place=75: 438, fig. 2. 1994
|year=1994
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Mirabilis;Mirabilis sect. Oxybaphus;Mirabilis austrotexana
|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. Oxybaphus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mirabilis austrotexana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 41
|treatment_page=page 57
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, few, moderately leafy mostly in proximal 2/3, few branched, 7–15 dm, glabrous basally, glabrous or sparsely glandular-puberulent distally. <b>Leaves</b> ascending at 30–70°, progressively reduced toward inflorescence; petiole 0.3–2 cm; blade green, lanceolate to lance-ovate, 3–12 × 1–5 cm, thick and moderately succulent, base broadly obtuse to cuneate, apex acute or tapered to rounded tip, surfaces glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and in upper axils, open, widely branched from main axis; peduncle 5–10 mm, glabrate or sparsely puberulent or spreading viscid-villous, crosswalls of hairs pale; involucres pale green, widely bell-shaped, 4–5 mm in flower, 7–10 mm in fruit, glabrous (except, often, margins) or very sparsely puberulent or villous, 70–80% connate, lobes broadly ovate, rounded. <b>Flowers</b> 3 per involucre; perianth pink to reddish purple, rarely white, 0.8–1 cm. <b>Fruits</b> brown to grayish or purplish brown, narrowly obovate, 4–5.3 mm, very sparsely pubescent with hairs 0.1–0.5 mm; ribs round-angular, 0.3 times width of sulci, 0.5–1 times as wide as high, smooth on angle, usually rugose on sides, occasionally interrupted and tuberculate; sulci with low tubercules, often also with transverse wrinkles.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering primarily spring–fall, occasionally winter.
|habitat=Mudflats, sandy or loamy soils
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Tex.;probably also adjacent Mexico (Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p><i>Mirabilis austrotexana</i> is very closely related to, and perhaps only a southern race of, the M. carletonii phase of <i>M. glabra</i>.</p>
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name=Mirabilis austrotexana
|authority=B. L. Turner
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering primarily spring–fall, occasionally winter.
|habitat=Mudflats, sandy or loamy soils
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=Tex.;probably also adjacent Mexico (Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Phytologia
|publication year=1994
|special status=
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|genus=Mirabilis
|section=Mirabilis sect. Oxybaphus
|species=Mirabilis austrotexana
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