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|accepted_name=Polygala hemipterocarpa
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=5(6): 31. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|common_names=Winged milkwort
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Polygala;Polygala hemipterocarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polygala]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Polygala hemipterocarpa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, single- or multi-stemmed, 1.2–4(–5.6)[–7.5] dm, unbranched or branched distally; from thickened caudex. <b>Stems</b> erect, sometimes slightly glaucous, usually glabrous, rarely with few scattered, minute hairs, those appressed to incurved. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; sessile or subsessile; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, (3–)6–25 × 0.6–1 mm, base obtuse, apex acute to subacuminate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> loosely cylindric, 3–15(–21) × 0.4–0.8 cm; peduncle 0.5–2.5 cm; bracts deciduous, ovate to lanceolate-ovate. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.5–1 mm, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. <b>Flowers</b> white, greenish veined, 3–4.5 mm; sepals ovate, 1.6–2.3 mm; wings obovate or elliptic-ovate, 3–4.3 × 1.6–1.8 mm, apex obtuse (rarely to bluntly rounded); keel 3.4 mm, crest 2-parted, with 3 lobes on each side, each 2–4-lobed. <b>Capsules</b> oblong, 4–6.3 × 2.3 mm, abaxial locule not winged, adaxial locule longer, winged, wing broadly scarious, erose-crenulate. <b>Seeds</b> 2.7 mm, pubescent, coat with rows of pits 0.05 mm wide; arils 2 mm, lobes 1/3–2/3 length of seed, vestigial, or to 1/3 length of seed in wingless abaxial locule.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes in grasslands, open woodlands.
|elevation=1400–2600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;eastern Sonora;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>Polygala hemipterocarpa is known only from the Chihuahuan and eastern Sonoran deserts.</p>
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name=Polygala hemipterocarpa
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Rocky slopes in grasslands, open woodlands.
|elevation=1400–2600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Durango;eastern Sonora;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/1f4bf54ae2f7dbd5376c45b4fe1b388e15b53086/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_472.xml
|genus=Polygala
|species=Polygala hemipterocarpa
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