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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mirabilis alipes
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Pilz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Madroño
|place=25: 120. 1978
|year=1978
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hermidium alipes
|authority=S. Watson
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Hermidium alipes var. pallidium
|authority=Ch. Porter
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Mirabilis;Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion;Mirabilis alipes
|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 alipes]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 40, 43
|treatment_page=page 44
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> forming hemispheric clumps 6–8 dm diam., glabrous or very sparsely puberulent. <b>Stems</b> 2–4 dm. <b>Leaves</b> spreading; petioles of proximal leaves 0.5–0.7 cm; blades of midstem leaves ovate to widely ovate, 4.5–9 × 3.5–5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, often oblique, apex obtuse, rarely acute. <b>Involucres</b>: peduncle 3–10 mm; involucres erect to pendent, 11–30 mm; bracts 6–9, distinct or to 50% connate, apex acute to obtuse, rarely rounded. <b>Flowers</b> 6–9 per involucre; perianth usually magenta, occasionally creamy white, bell-shaped, 1.5–1.8 cm. <b>Fruits</b> mottled olive green, with 10 slender, tan ribs, ellipsoid, 5.5–7 mm, rugulose, glabrous, secreting thick, heavy mucilage when wetted.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–late summer.
|habitat=Gravelly or sandy soils in arid brushlands or pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1200-2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;Utah.
|discussion=<p>Hermidium was once maintained as a genus based on discrete involucral bracts. As discussed by G. E. Pilz (1978), distinct bracts are typical, but involucres with the five outermost bracts united to one-half their length are common.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mirabilis alipes
|author=
|authority=(S. Watson) Pilz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Hermidium alipes var. pallidium
|basionyms=Hermidium alipes
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–late summer.
|habitat=Gravelly or sandy soils in arid brushlands or pinyon-juniper woodlands
|elevation=1200-2000 m
|distribution=Calif.;Colo.;Nev.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Madroño
|publication year=1978
|special status=
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|genus=Mirabilis
|section=Mirabilis sect. Quamoclidion
|species=Mirabilis alipes
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