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|accepted_name=Mentzelia librina
|accepted_authority=(K. H. Thorne & F. J. Smith) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=19: 119. 2009
|year=2009
}}
|common_names=Book Cliffs stickleaf
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mentzelia multicaulis var. librina
|authority=K. H. Thorne & F. J. Smith
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Great Basin Naturalist
|publication_place=46: 556, fig. 1. 1986
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia librina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Bartonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia librina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 500
|treatment_page=page 511
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices or rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> multiple, erect, zigzag; branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, straight to upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 14–26.3 × 5.1–10.8 mm, widest intersinus distance 2.3–5.2 mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins usually 3-fid, rarely entire or pinnate, teeth or lobes usually 2, rarely 0 or 4, perpendicular to leaf axis, 0.8–2.7 mm; distal elliptic, base not clasping, margins 3-fid to occasionally pinnate, teeth or lobes usually 2, occasionally 4, perpendicular to leaf axis, 1.5–3.5 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and complex grappling-hook trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins usually entire, rarely pinnate. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 8.3–13.6 × 2.6–4.8(–6.2) mm, apex acute, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments broadly spatulate, strongly clawed, 6–8(–9.1) × 2.3–4.4 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers straight after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 5–7.9 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped, 4–7.3 × 3.3–5.8 mm, base rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–5 per cell.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Barren gray soils, steep shale slopes.
|elevation=1700–2100 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia librina</i> in narrowly distributed along the border between Carbon and Emery counties.</p>
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mentzelia librina
|authority=(K. H. Thorne & F. J. Smith) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mentzelia multicaulis var. librina
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Sep.
|habitat=Barren gray soils, steep shale slopes.
|elevation=1700–2100 m.
|distribution=Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2009
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_519.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia librina
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