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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tetracoccus hallii
|accepted_authority=Brandegee
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Zoë
|place=5: 229. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Hall’s four-pod spurge
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tetracoccus fasciculatus var. hallii
|authority=(Brandegee) Dressler
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Picrodendraceae;Tetracoccus;Tetracoccus hallii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Picrodendraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tetracoccus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tetracoccus hallii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 326
|treatment_page=page 327
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>to 2 m. <b>Leaves</b> alternate and clustered on short shoots; blade obovate to oblanceolate, 2–12 × 1–4 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate flowers in fascicles of 2–20 on short shoots; pistillate flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2–6 on short shoots. <b>Pedicels</b>: staminate present; pistillate 1–3 mm, strigose. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 4–8; stamens 4–8, filaments glabrous. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 5, in 1 series, greenish with red margins, 2–3 mm, sparsely strigose on both surfaces; pistil usually 3-carpellate, 1.5–2 mm, strigose. <b>Seeds</b> 1(–2) per locule, brown, ovoid to pyriform, 3–4 mm, both radial surfaces usually rounded, wrinkled near hilum; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–May and sporadically year-round.
|habitat=Desert slopes and dry washes on igneous substrates.
|elevation=30–1200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Tetracoccus hallii</i> is very similar to the wholly Mexican calciphile T. fasciculatus.</p>
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name=Tetracoccus hallii
|authority=Brandegee
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Tetracoccus fasciculatus var. hallii
|basionyms=
|family=Picrodendraceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–May and sporadically year-round.
|habitat=Desert slopes and dry washes on igneous substrates.
|elevation=30–1200 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Zoë
|publication year=1906
|special status=Illustrated
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|genus=Tetracoccus
|species=Tetracoccus hallii
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