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|accepted_name=Acleisanthes diffusa
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) R. A. Levin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=12: 61. 2002
|year=2002
}}
|common_names=Spreading moonpod
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Selinocarpus diffusus
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser.
|publication_place=2, 15: 262. 1853
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Acleisanthes;Acleisanthes diffusa
|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 diffusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 34, 37
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbaceous, ± woody at base, overall moderately to densely pubescent with brownish, translucent, conic hairs, often with terminal cell whitish and flattened or brownish and spheroidal, and with appressed, white, flattened, minute, basally attached hairs. <b>Stems</b> erect, decumbent, or prostrate, densely leafy, 10–30 cm. <b>Leaves</b> dull green, commonly drying brownish green, petiolate, those of a pair slightly unequal, gradually reduced toward inflorescence, somewhat succulent; petiole 3–20 mm; blade ovate to ovate-oblong, 10–30 × 4–17 mm, base obtuse to truncate, margins undulate, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Flowers</b> usually 1 in axils of leaves; pedicel 1 mm; perianth 35–48 mm, tube pale dull green, limbs greenish white or pale greenish yellow, often with 5 greenish stripes, 15 mm diam.; stamens (4–)5. <b>Fruits</b> 5–7 mm with flattened, white hairs on body; wings 1–2 mm wide.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–late summer.
|habitat=Dry clay and sandy, commonly calcareous or gypseous, soils
|elevation=1100-1600 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.
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|references=
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name=Acleisanthes diffusa
|authority=(A. Gray) R. A. Levin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Selinocarpus diffusus
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–late summer.
|habitat=Dry clay and sandy, commonly calcareous or gypseous, soils
|elevation=1100-1600 m
|distribution=N.Mex.;Okla.;Tex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2002
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|genus=Acleisanthes
|species=Acleisanthes diffusa
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