View source for Cuphea wrightii

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|accepted_name=Cuphea wrightii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|place=5(6): 56. 1853
|year=1853
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cuphea wrightii var. nematopetala
|authority=Bacigalupi
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Parsonsia wrightii
|authority=(A. Gray) Kearney
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Lythraceae;Cuphea;Cuphea wrightii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Lythraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cuphea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Cuphea wrightii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual, 1–4 dm, with fibrous roots. <b>Stems</b> erect, sparsely branched, dark purple-red-glandular-setose, glandular-viscid. <b>Leaves</b> opposite, petiolate proximally, sessile distally; petiole 1–10[–22] mm; blade ovate to lanceolate, 10–35[–50] × 3–15[–20] mm, base rounded to cuneate. <b>Racemes</b> leafy. <b>Pedicels</b> (1–)4–6 mm. <b>Flowers</b> alternate, solitary and interpetiolar, (with 2 or 3 axillary); floral tube pale abaxially, purple-red to purple-black with dark veins adaxially, 5–11 × 1 mm, purple-red-glandular-setose; base rounded [or a descending spur], to 0.5 mm; inner surface glabrous proximally, lightly villous to glabrous distal to stamens; epicalyx segments thick, 2 flanking the adaxialmost sepal terminated by a bristle; sepals unequal, adaxialmost longer; petals 6, purple or rose [bicolor, with white abaxial petals], obovate to orbiculate, unequal, 4 abaxial 0.5–1[–2.5] × 0.2 mm, 2 adaxial 1–2[–5] × 0.7 mm; stamens 11, reaching or surpassing sinus of sepals. <b>Seeds</b> 3–6 [or 7], oblong-elliptic in outline, 2–2.5 × 1.8–2 mm, margin rounded. <b>2n</b> = 20 (Mexico), 44 (Mexico).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mid–late summer.
|habitat=Local in moist, open habitats, pastures, roadsides, rocky washes.
|elevation=1000–1800[–2900] m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Cuphea wrightii reaches its northernmost distribution in the southeastern corner of Arizona. Plants from Arizona with filiform petals (var. nematopetala) have been reported growing mixed with plants having normal obovate petals.</p>
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name=Cuphea wrightii
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Cuphea wrightii var. nematopetala;Parsonsia wrightii
|basionyms=
|family=Lythraceae
|phenology=Flowering mid–late summer.
|habitat=Local in moist, open habitats, pastures, roadsides, rocky washes.
|elevation=1000–1800[–2900] m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication year=1853
|special status=
|source xml=https://xjsachs2@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/1f4bf54ae2f7dbd5376c45b4fe1b388e15b53086/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V10/V10_528.xml
|genus=Cuphea
|species=Cuphea wrightii
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