View source for Rhinotropis heterorhyncha

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|accepted_name=Rhinotropis heterorhyncha
|accepted_authority=(Barneby) J. R. Abbott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|place=5: 135. 2011
|year=2011
}}
|common_names=Beaked spiny polygala;desert or notch-beaked milkwort
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygala subspinosa var. heterorhyncha
|authority=Barneby
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication_place=3: 194.  1943
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=P. heterorhyncha
|authority=(Barneby) T. Wendt
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Rhinotropis;Rhinotropis heterorhyncha
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rhinotropis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rhinotropis heterorhyncha]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> multi-stemmed, mat-forming, 1–2.5 dm. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to laxly erect, often glaucous, glabrous or pubescent, hairs spreading. <b>Leaves</b> sessile; blade ovate, elliptic, or obovate, 4–20 × 2–12 mm, base cuneate, rounded, or nearly clasping, apex acute or rounded, surfaces pubescent, hairs spreading. <b>Racemes</b> terminal, to 3.5(–5) × 1.5–3 cm; rachis thorn-tipped; peduncle 0.2–0.3 cm; bracts deciduous, ovate, elliptic, or linear. <b>Pedicels</b> (3–)4–8(–9.5) mm, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Flowers</b> pink, wings usually pink, keel distally yellow, (7.5–)9.5–13.5 mm; sepals deciduous, elliptic to ovate, lower sepals mostly obovate, (2–)2.5–6 mm, pubescent; wings obovate to elliptic-obovate, (6.5–)8–12.5 × (2.5–)3–5.5 mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; keel (6–)7.5–11.2 mm, sac glabrous, beak oblong, with 1 or 2 prominent invaginations along abaxial side formed by sinuate excess tissue, (1.4–)2–4 × (0.6–)0.8–1.3 mm, glabrous. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid-ovoid to obovoid, 4.2–7.8 × 3.7–7 mm, base cuneate to rounded, margins with very narrow and even wing, pubescent or glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> 3–4.4 mm, most densely pubescent apically, proximal 1/2 sparsely and unevenly pubescent or glabrous; aril 1.3–2.6 mm, lobes 1/4–1/2 length of seed. <b>2n</b> = 36(or 38).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly open slopes and flats in desert scrub.
|elevation=900–1600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|discussion=<p>Rhinotropis heterorhyncha is known from the Funeral Mountains of Inyo County, California, in the Mojave Desert region, and from adjacent areas of southern Nevada.</p>
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name=Rhinotropis heterorhyncha
|authority=(Barneby) J. R. Abbott
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=P. heterorhyncha
|basionyms=Polygala subspinosa var. heterorhyncha
|family=Polygalaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Sandy or gravelly open slopes and flats in desert scrub.
|elevation=900–1600 m.
|distribution=Calif.;Nev.
|reference=None
|publication title=J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas
|publication year=2011
|special status=
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|genus=Rhinotropis
|species=Rhinotropis heterorhyncha
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