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|accepted_name=Gentianella microcalyx
|accepted_authority=(Lemmon) J. M. Gillett
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=44: 246. 1957
|year=1957
}}
|common_names=Eggleaf or Chihuahua gentian
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Gentiana microcalyx
|authority=Lemmon
|rank=species
|publication_title=Pacific Rural Press
|publication_place=23: 129.  1882
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|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Gentianaceae;Gentianella;Gentianella microcalyx
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Gentianaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Gentianella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Gentianella microcalyx]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, 15–60 cm. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to erect, branched distally, often also at or near base. <b>Leaves</b>: basal often withered by flowering, larger leaves ± petiolate, blades elliptic to spatulate or oblanceolate, 10–25 × 2–8 mm; cauline blades cordate-ovate to lanceolate, 5–50 × 3–30 mm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and often axillary umbelloid cymes; pedicels 3–25 mm. <b>Flowers</b> (4- or)5-merous; calyx 2–3(–5) mm, lobes triangular to oblong or elliptic, ± unequal, 1.5–3.5 mm; corolla yellowish white to pale rose-violet or pale violet-blue, occasionally with red-violet spots distally, narrowly funnelform to nearly salverform, 6–13 mm, lobes spreading, lanceolate-ovate, (2.5–)3–6.5 mm, apex obtuse to acute (in dried specimens sometimes appearing ± acuminate through inrolling), without adaxial scales or fringes; ovary short-stipitate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist, rocky sites in ± open pine and pine-oak woods.
|elevation=600–2100 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Sonora).
|discussion=<p>Gentianella microcalyx is primarily of Mexican distribution, where its range extends to higher elevations than in the flora area, where it is known only from southern Arizona.</p>
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name=Gentianella microcalyx
|authority=(Lemmon) J. M. Gillett
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Gentiana microcalyx
|family=Gentianaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Moist, rocky sites in ± open pine and pine-oak woods.
|elevation=600–2100 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1957
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Gentianella
|species=Gentianella microcalyx
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