View source for Rhinotropis intermontana

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|accepted_name=Rhinotropis intermontana
|accepted_authority=(T. Wendt) J. R. Abbott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=5: 135. 2011
|year=2011
}}
|common_names=Intermountain milkwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygalaintermontana t.
|authority=Wendt
|rank=species
|publication_title=J. Arnold Arbor.
|publication_place=60: 505.  1979
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Rhinotropis;Rhinotropis intermontana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhinotropis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhinotropis intermontana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, multi-stemmed, sometimes mat-forming, 1.5–10 dm. <b>Stems</b> erect to sprawling, densely pubescent or glabrate, with dense, matted or shaggy tomentum, hairs appressed, incurved, or, occasionally, irregularly spreading. <b>Leaves</b> sessile or subsessile, rarely with narrow, petiolelike base to 1(–2) mm; blade linear to oblanceolate or obovate, (3–)4–20(–25) × 0.8–3(–3.5) mm, base long-cuneate, apex rounded to acute, surfaces densely pubescent, hairs incurved. <b>Racemes</b> terminal, sometimes aggregated into pseudopanicles or reduced and appearing fasciculate, 1.5 × 0.7–1.3 cm; rachis thorn-tipped; peduncle 0–0.1 cm; bracts deciduous, lanceolate or ovate. <b>Pedicels</b> (2.5–)3–7(–9) mm, glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> cream or greenish, (2.5–)3–4.7(–5.2) mm; sepals deciduous, ovate or elliptic, 1.3–3.3 mm, glabrous or with few incurved hairs subapically, margins sparsely ciliate; wings obovate, 2.5–4.9 × 1.5–3 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent subapically; keel (2–)2.5–3.4 mm, sac glabrous or appressed-pubescent in upper part, beak mostly absent, when present, a bluntly rounded projection, 0(–0.5) × 0(–0.5) mm, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Capsules</b> broadly ellipsoid, ovoid, or subglobose, 3.5–5.8 × 3.3–4.6 mm, base truncate to rounded, margins with narrow and even wing, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 2.8–4.2 mm, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous; aril 1.2–2.3 mm, lobes to 1/3 length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer(–fall).
|habitat=Sandy, gravelly, or loose silt flats, slopes, dunes, ridges, and badlands of diverse parent materials in open desert scrub or mountain slopes in pinyon-juniper-sagebrush woodlands, sagebrush scrub.
|elevation=600–3000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Rhinotropis intermontana is named for its distribution in the Intermountain region of the United States, which is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east, the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range on the west, and the Mojave Desert to the south.</p>
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name=Rhinotropis intermontana
|authority=(T. Wendt) J. R. Abbott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygalaintermontana t.
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer(–fall).
|habitat=Sandy, gravelly, or loose silt flats, slopes, dunes, ridges, and badlands of diverse parent materials in open desert scrub or mountain slopes in pinyon-juniper-sagebrush woodlands, sagebrush scrub.
|elevation=600–3000 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2011
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/1f4bf54ae2f7dbd5376c45b4fe1b388e15b53086/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_501.xml
|genus=Rhinotropis
|species=Rhinotropis intermontana
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