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|accepted_name=Mirabilis greenei
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=12: 253. 1876
|year=1876
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Mirabilis;Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion;Mirabilis greenei
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mirabilis greenei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 40
|treatment_page=page 45
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> forming hemispheric clumps 6–8 dm diam., glabrous to sparsely puberulent. <b>Stems</b> 4–8 dm. <b>Leaves</b> spreading; petioles of proximal leaves 1–2.7 cm; blades of midstem leaves widely elliptic to ovate, 3–8-5 × 3–5.5 cm, base obtuse, often asymmetric, apex acute or acuminate. <b>Involucres</b>: peduncle 25–85 mm; involucres erect or ascending, 26–40 mm; bracts 5, 50% connate, apex acute to widely ovate. <b>Flowers</b> 6(–16) per involucre; perianth magenta, funnelform, 4–5 cm. <b>Fruits</b> light brown, with 5 blunt angles and 10 slender ribs visible when wet, widely obovoid to widely ellipsoid, 7–7.5 mm, tuberculate, glabrous or very sparsely puberulent, secreting mucilage most abundantly on ribs when wetted. <b>2n</b> = 66.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Gravelly slopes and flats, with juniper
|elevation=400-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Mirabilis greenei</i> may have as many as sixteen flowers per involucral bract.</p>
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name=Mirabilis greenei
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring.
|habitat=Gravelly slopes and flats, with juniper
|elevation=400-1000 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V4/V4_83.xml
|genus=Mirabilis
|section=Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
|species=Mirabilis greenei
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