View source for Fagonia pachyacantha

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|accepted_name=Fagonia pachyacantha
|accepted_authority=Rydberg in N. L. Britton et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=N. Amer. Fl.
|place=25: 105. 1910
|year=1910
}}
|common_names=Sticky fagonia
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Fagonia californica var. glutinosa
|authority=Pringle ex Vail
}}
|hierarchy=Zygophyllaceae;Fagonia;Fagonia pachyacantha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zygophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Fagonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Fagonia pachyacantha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 30, 32
|treatment_page=page 31
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennial </b>herbs or subshrubs, to 0.6 m, to 1 m diam. <b>Stems</b> ± prostrate, radiating from plant base, sparsely branched, dark green, not noticeably slender, ultimate branches densely short-stipitate- to subsessile-glandular, glands globular (drying to cup-shaped), golden (making branches appear yellowish from a distance), 1 mm diam.; older stems glabrate basally, not scabrous. <b>Leaves</b> (1–)3-foliolate; stipules straight, spreading to slightly reflexed, stout, linear-subulate, 3–16 mm, about as long as petioles, glandular to glabrate; petiole 2–16 mm, glandular to glabrate; leaflets ovate to elliptic, slightly obovate, or linear and terete, glandular, becoming glabrate, ± as long as or longer than petiole, apex spinulose, often fleeting, terminal to 26 × 10 mm, laterals to 20 × 7 mm, shorter and narrower than terminal, one or both commonly caducous. <b>Pedicels</b> 1–7 mm, glandular. <b>Flowers</b> to 1.5 cm diam.; sepals green to purple, ovate-lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, apiculate, glandular to glabrate; petals light to dark red-purple, 5–8 × 2.5–5.5 mm; stamen filaments 3.5–5 mm; ovary 2 mm, glandular, hairy; style 2–3 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 3.5–5.5 × 4–5 mm, puberulent, usually glandular; style 1.5–4 mm, not or barely wider at base.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Nov–May.
|habitat=Flat, sandy or rocky desert habitats.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
|discussion=<p><i>Fagonia pachyacantha</i> is found only in the Sonoran Desert.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Fagonia pachyacantha
|author=
|authority=Rydberg in N. L. Britton et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Fagonia californica var. glutinosa
|basionyms=
|family=Zygophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering Nov–May.
|habitat=Flat, sandy or rocky desert habitats.
|elevation=0–500 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Mexico (Baja California;Baja California Sur;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=N. Amer. Fl.
|publication year=1910
|special status=
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|genus=Fagonia
|species=Fagonia pachyacantha
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