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|accepted_name=Kallstroemia californica
|accepted_authority=(S. Watson) Vail
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=22: 230. 1895
|year=1895
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Tribulus californicus
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=11: 125. 1876
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Kallstroemia brachystylis
|authority=Vail
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=K. californica var. brachystylis
|authority=(Vail) Kearney & Peebles
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Zygophyllaceae;Kallstroemia;Kallstroemia californica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Zygophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Kallstroemia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Kallstroemia californica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 40
|treatment_page=page 39
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to decumbent, to 0.7 m, hirsute and strigose with white antrorse hairs, becoming glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> usually elliptic in outline, sometimes obovate, 1.5–6 × 1–3 cm; stipules 1.5–5 × 1 mm; leaflets 6–12(–14), elliptic to oblong, 4–17 × 1.5–9 mm, middle pairs usually largest, terminal pairs sometimes largest, surfaces appressed-hirsute, veins and margins sericeous, becoming glabrate. <b>Pedicels</b> to 15 mm in flower, 8–33 mm in fruit, shorter than subtending leaves, thickened distally, bent sharply at base and straight distally. <b>Flowers</b> 8–10 mm diam.; sepals usually deciduous, if persistent spreading from base of schizocarp, lanceolate, 2–4 × 1–1.5 mm, 2/3 as long as petals, in flower longer than style, in fruit not reaching tops of mature fruit body, margins becoming involute, strigose or hirsutulous and strigillose; petals marcescent, 1-colored, yellow, drying white or orange, obovate, 3–6 × 2.5–3 mm; stamens as long as style; anthers yellow, ovoid, to 1 mm; ovary ovoid, 1 mm diam., hairy; style conic, to 1 mm, shorter than ovary, strigillose; stigma terminal. <b>Schizocarps</b> ovoid, to 4 × 3–5 mm (including tubercles), strigillose; beak cylindric, 2–4 mm, shorter than fruit body, base conic, glabrous or base sparingly strigillose; mericarps 3 × 1 mm, abaxially tuberculate, 4–5 tubercles blunt oblong, 1–1.5 mm (tubercles becoming more prominent as fruits mature), other tubercles rounded, much less than 1 mm, sides pitted or smooth, adaxial edge angled.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Mar–Oct.
|habitat=Flat, sandy, disturbed areas in desert and semiarid grasslands.
|elevation=0–1600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;c;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p><i>Kallstroemia californica</i> is found throughout the Chihuahuan, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts, mainly at lower elevations.</p><!--
--><p><i>Kallstroemia californica</i> plants with fewer leaflets and less pronounced fruit tubercles have been called K. brachystylis (<i>K. californica</i> var. brachystylis), but variation in these characters is continuous and two taxa cannot be distinguished. Recognition of two taxa in the past arose primarily from the determination of a number of immature or depauperate specimens of <i>K. parviflora</i> as K. brachystylis (D. M. Porter 1969).</p>
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name=Kallstroemia californica
|authority=(S. Watson) Vail
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Kallstroemia brachystylis;K. californica var. brachystylis
|basionyms=Tribulus californicus
|family=Zygophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering Mar–Oct.
|habitat=Flat, sandy, disturbed areas in desert and semiarid grasslands.
|elevation=0–1600 m.
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;c;n Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1895
|special status=
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|genus=Kallstroemia
|species=Kallstroemia californica
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