View source for Rhinotropis subspinosa

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|accepted_name=Rhinotropis subspinosa
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) J. R. Abbott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=5: 135. 2011
|year=2011
}}
|common_names=Spiny or cushion or showy milkwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygalasubspinosa s.
|authority=Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Amer. Naturalist
|publication_place=7: 299.  1873
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Rhinotropis;Rhinotropis subspinosa
|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 subspinosa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, multi-stemmed, 0.5–2.5(–6) dm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, sometimes glaucous, at least when young, glabrous or pubescent, hairs spreading to slightly incurved. <b>Leaves</b> subsessile to petiolate, petiole to 1(–2) mm; blade obovate or elliptic, 4–31 × 0.8–11 mm, base cuneate, apex rounded or acute, surfaces densely to sparsely pubescent or subglabrous, hairs spreading to slightly incurved. <b>Racemes</b> terminal, sometimes reduced to (1 or)2–few flowers, 3–12.5 cm; rachis thorn-tipped; peduncle 0.1–0.5 cm; bracts usually deciduous, rarely persistent, elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate. <b>Pedicels</b> (1.5–)3.5–10(–20.5) mm, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> pink to rose, wings (and other sepals) sometimes light green, distal keel yellow or green, (6–)8–12(–13) mm; sepals deciduous, ovate, elliptic, or lanceolate, 2–7.2 mm, glabrous or pubescent; wings obovate to elliptic-obovate, (5–)7–11.5(–12.2) × (2.3–)3–5.2(–5.9) mm, glabrous or pubescent; keel (5.4–)6.2–10.5 mm, sac glabrous, beak oblong, 1–3 × 0.9–1.5 mm, glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to obovoid, 4.3–8.8(–10) × 3.7–7.3 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins with narrow, entire or slightly erose wing, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> 3.3–4.9 mm, ± evenly and moderately densely pubescent, occasionally with glabrate patches; aril 1.2–3.1 mm, lobes to 1/2 length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 18, 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Gravelly soils derived from limestone, shale, lava, or tuff, or crevices of soft calcareous rocks on eroded hills, open slopes and flats, in desert scrub, open pinyon-juniper woodlands, mountain brush, ponderosa pine woodlands.
|elevation=1300–2400 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah.
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name=Rhinotropis subspinosa
|authority=(S. Watson) J. R. Abbott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Polygalasubspinosa s.
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–mid summer.
|habitat=Gravelly soils derived from limestone, shale, lava, or tuff, or crevices of soft calcareous rocks on eroded hills, open slopes and flats, in desert scrub, open pinyon-juniper woodlands, mountain brush, ponderosa pine woodlands.
|elevation=1300–2400 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2011
|special status=
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|genus=Rhinotropis
|species=Rhinotropis subspinosa
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