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|accepted_name=Funastrum torreyi
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Schlechter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|place=13: 287. 1914
|year=1914
}}
|common_names=Soft twinevine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Philibertia torreyi
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=12: 64.  1876
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sarcostemma torreyi
|authority=(A. Gray) Woodson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Funastrum;Funastrum torreyi
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Funastrum]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Funastrum torreyi]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>hirsute (pilose). <b>Leaves</b> persistent, stipular colleter 1 on each side of petiole; petiole 1–2.5 cm, hirsute throughout; blade deltate, lanceolate, or ovate, 2–5.5 × 1.5–2.5 cm, chartaceous, base sagittate or cordate, margins plane, apex acute or attenuate, mucronate, venation pinnipalmate, main veins often conspicuously pale, surfaces hirsute, margins ciliate, laminar colleters 4–10. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary at nodes, 8–15-flowered; peduncle 2–7 cm, hirsute; bracts caducous, 1, at base of each pedicel. <b>Pedicels</b> 10–17 mm, hirsute. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4–6 mm, apex acute to acuminate, erect, hirsute, ciliate, colleter 1, in sinuses; corolla cream to pink or purplish with red or purplish blotches or stripes at bases and near tips of lobes, rotate-campanulate, tube 2–2.5 mm, lobes ascending, lanceolate to ovate, 6–9 mm, apex acute to obtuse, apiculate, hirsutulous abaxially, minutely hirtellous adaxially, margins conspicuously ciliate with flattened trichomes; corona ring cream, inflated corona segments proximally green, distally glossy white, ovoid, 2–3 mm; style apex shallowly convex. <b>Follicles</b> usually solitary, lance-ovoid, 8–9 × 1–1.5 cm, apex long-attenuate, puberulent. <b>Seeds</b> 20–50, light brown, thickly winged, biconvex, lanceolate, 6–7 × 3–4 mm, both faces papillate; coma white, 3 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Oct; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Canyons, arroyos, dry slopes, ridges, plains, igneous substrates, juniper and oak woods, thorn scrub, desert scrub.
|elevation=1200–2100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>Funastrum torreyi barely enters the flora area in the Big Bend region of Texas. It is apparently not common and re-evaluation of its conservation status is warranted. It has the largest and showiest flowers of the Funastrum species in the flora region.</p>
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name=Funastrum torreyi
|authority=(A. Gray) Schlechter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sarcostemma torreyi
|basionyms=Philibertia torreyi
|family=Apocynaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Oct; fruiting Sep–Oct.
|habitat=Canyons, arroyos, dry slopes, ridges, plains, igneous substrates, juniper and oak woods, thorn scrub, desert scrub.
|elevation=1200–2100 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg.
|publication year=1914
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Funastrum
|species=Funastrum torreyi
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