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|accepted_name=Hebecarpa
|accepted_authority=(Chodat) J. R. Abbott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=5: 134. 2011
|year=2011
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygala sect. Hebecarpa
|authority=Chodat
|rank=section
|publication_title=Biblioth. Universelle Rev. Suisse, sér.
|publication_place=3, 25: 698.  1891
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Hebecarpa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Hebecarpa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek hebe, down of puberty or pubescent, and karpos, fruit, alluding to vestiture
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, or subshrubs, multi-stemmed [single]. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or decumbent to erect, usually densely pubescent, rarely glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; mostly sessile or subsessile (petiole to 2 mm in H. ovatifolia); sometimes dimorphic (proximal different from distal); blade surfaces not punctate (except translucent-punctate in H. macradenia and H. punctata), pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, axillary, or leaf-opposed, usually racemes, sometimes 1 or 2(–4)-flowered; peduncle present or absent; bracts deciduous. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> usually purple, pink, yellow, greenish yellow, rarely whitish, wings sometimes cream, yellowish, or greenish, keel sometimes yellow or yellowish green distally, chasmogamous, 3–8 mm; sepals deciduous or upper 1 sometimes tardily so or subpersistent (in H. macradenia and H. punctata), distinct, pubescent; wings deciduous, 3.5–6(–7.5) mm, pubescent; keel not beaked or crested, sometimes bluntly 3-lobed, pubescent or glabrate (in H. obscura); stamens usually 8, sometimes 7 (in H. macradenia), not grouped; ovary 2-loculed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscent, margins not winged (except sometimes narrowly winged in H. barbeyana), not punctate (except translucent-punctate in H. macradenia and H. punctata), pubescent to glabrate or glabrous and ciliolate. <b>Seeds</b> pubescent, arillate.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw;sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 40–70 (7 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Most species of Hebecarpa are Mexican, the center of diversity for this group. The seven in the flora area occur mostly in arid and semi-arid areas of the southwestern United States, representing contiguous northern expansions of their ranges in Mexico. A few species range into Central America and Andean South America, but they are not the basalmost species, suggesting that they have arrived in these regions secondarily.</p><!--
--><p>Several species complexes in this group are in serious need of revision, with overly fine, historical splitting (often based on few specimens); thus the total number of species is probably fewer than 50.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade surfaces and capsules densely translucent-punctate from internal cavities appearing as pustular glands 0.2–0.4 mm diam.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, narrowly ovate, or linear.
|[[Hebecarpa macradenia|Hebecarpa macradenia]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades usually obovate, rarely suborbiculate to broadly elliptic.
|[[Hebecarpa punctata|Hebecarpa punctata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blade surfaces and capsules not translucent-punctate.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Capsules densely pubescent to glabrate.
|[[Hebecarpa obscura|Hebecarpa obscura]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Capsules glabrous, margins ciliolate.
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Stems and leaves with incurved hairs.
|[[#key-0-5| > 5]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Middle and distal leaf blades usually 1.5–4(–6) mm wide, elliptic, lanceolate, or linear; capsules 5–10(–11) mm.
|[[Hebecarpa barbeyana|Hebecarpa barbeyana]]
|-id=key-0-5
|5
|Middle and distal leaf blades 4–7 mm wide, ovate, elliptic, or obovate; capsules 9–12 mm.
|[[Hebecarpa palmeri|Hebecarpa palmeri]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Stems and leaves with spreading hairs.
|[[#key-0-6| > 6]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades ovate to ovate-oblong or elliptic; capsules 8.5–13 mm.
|[[Hebecarpa ovatifolia|Hebecarpa ovatifolia]]
|-id=key-0-6
|6
|Leaf blades ovate, elliptic, spatulate, or linear proximally, elliptic, lanceolate, or linear distally (often longer than proximal ones); capsules 6–8 mm.
|[[Hebecarpa rectipilis|Hebecarpa rectipilis]]
|}
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name=Hebecarpa
|authority=(Chodat) J. R. Abbott
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygala sect. Hebecarpa
|family=Polygalaceae
|distribution=sw;sc United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2011
|special status=
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|genus=Hebecarpa
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