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|accepted_name=Tribulus cistoides
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 387. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Burr-nut;Jamaican feverplant
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Zygophyllaceae;Tribulus;Tribulus cistoides
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zygophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tribulus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tribulus cistoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 37
|treatment_page=page 38
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial; herbage hairy (often silvery gray), becoming glabrate. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to suberect, green to reddish, to 0.8 m, densely sericeous, ± hirsute, especially at nodes. <b>Leaves</b> 2.5–8.5 × 1–2.6 cm; stipules 3–9 × 1–4 mm; leaflets 12–16(–20), obliquely oblong to elliptic, largest 6–21 × 2.5–9 mm, densely sericeous when young, whitish abaxially. <b>Pedicels</b> longer than shorter pair of leaves, in flower (6–)19–35 mm, in fruit 11–34 mm, apex bent. <b>Flowers</b> 15–25 mm diam.; sepals lanceolate, 5–9 × 1.5–3.5 mm, ciliate, densely strigose, silky-pubescent; petals obovate-cuneate, (5.5–)7–17 × (3–)5–11 mm; outer whorl of nectary glands green, inner whorl basally connate into 5-lobed urceolate ring surrounding base of ovary, yellow, broadly triangular, to 1 mm; stamen filaments 2.5–5 mm; anthers yellow, oblong-cordate to narrowly sagittate, 1–3 mm; ovary 1.5–3 mm diam.; style 5-ridged, cylindric, stout, 1–2 mm; stigma globose to pyramidal. <b>Schizocarps</b> 8–10 mm diam. excluding 7 mm spines; mericarps bearing 2 conic spreading 5–7 mm dorsal spines and sometimes 2 smaller retrorse spines near base [rarely spines absent and mericarps tuberculate, or spine 1], body green to gray, hispid, densely sericeous to strigose or glabrate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Dry disturbed habitats, especially in maritime areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;s Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;n South America;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Tribulus cistoides</i>, native to tropical and subtropical southern Africa, is occasionally grown in sandy soils as a garden ornamental or along roads to stabilize shifting soils (D. M. Porter 1972). Although <i>T. cistoides</i> has been reported from Texas, no specimen has been seen and it apparently does not occur there. The species has been introduced to the Galápagos Islands, but not to mainland Ecuador.</p>
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name=Tribulus cistoides
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Zygophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round.
|habitat=Dry disturbed habitats, especially in maritime areas.
|elevation=0–10 m.
|distribution=Fla.;Ga.;La.;s Africa;introduced also in Mexico;West Indies;n South America;Pacific Islands.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced;Illustrated
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|genus=Tribulus
|species=Tribulus cistoides
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