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Loasaceae
Patrick Alexander	VPAP Resources JANAS 30(2) PLANTS: annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, one species a small tree; hairs diverse, often barbed, sometimes dendritic or stinging, usually unicellular and silicified or calcified. STEMS: mostly erect, usually brittle; mature epidermis often white. LEAVES: exstipulate, ours alternate, simple and usually toothed or lobed. I INFLORESCENCE: cymose or sometimes racemose. FLOWERS: perfect, actinomorphic, epigynous or rarely perigynous, the hypanthium often extending slightly beyond the ovary as a short tube; sepals 5 (in ours), usually persistent; petals 5 (in ours), sometimes appearing more numerous by development ofpetaloid staminodia, free or connate; stamens (2), 5 or lO-many, free to epipetalous; pistil (in ours) 3- or 5-carpellate, unilocular; style 1, often persistent. FRUIT: a capsule or an achene. SEEDS: 1 and subapical or l-many and parietal; endosperm present or absent. NOTES: 15 genera, ca. 250 species, New World, except 1 genus in Afr. and Arabia, 1 in Marquesas Islands. Hufford, L. D. 1989. Nordic J. Bot. 9:217-227, and references therein. REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 1998. Loasaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 96.
Species within checklist: Moab NEON (MOAB) plants - Southern Rockies & Colorado Plateau (D13) \|\| << 1 - 50 taxa >> Cevallia sinuata Eucnide bartonioides Eucnide lobata Images not available Eucnide rupestris Eucnide urens Mentzelia affinis Mentzelia albescens Images not available Mentzelia albicaulis Mentzelia argillicola Images not available Mentzelia argillosa Images not available Mentzelia aspera Images not available Mentzelia asperula Mentzelia candelariae Images not available Mentzelia canyonensis Images not available Mentzelia chrysantha Images not available Mentzelia collomiae Images not available Mentzelia congesta Images not available Mentzelia conspicua Mentzelia crocea Images not available Mentzelia decapetala Images not available Mentzelia densa Images not available Mentzelia desertorum Images not available Mentzelia dispersa Images not available Mentzelia eremophila Images not available Mentzelia floridana Images not available Mentzelia flumensevera Images not available Mentzelia goodrichii Images not available Mentzelia gracilenta Mentzelia hirsutissima Images not available Mentzelia hispida Images not available Mentzelia hualapaiensis Images not available Mentzelia humilis Mentzelia incisa Images not available Mentzelia involucrata Mentzelia inyoensis Images not available Mentzelia isolata Mentzelia jonesii Mentzelia laciniata Images not available Mentzelia laevicaulis Mentzelia lagarosa Images not available Mentzelia leucophylla Images not available Mentzelia librina Images not available Mentzelia lindheimeri Images not available Mentzelia lindleyi Images not available Mentzelia linearifolia Images not available Mentzelia longiloba Images not available Mentzelia marginata Images not available Mentzelia memorabilis Images not available Mentzelia mexicana Images not available Mentzelia micrantha Images not available