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Scopulophila
Family:
Caryophyllaceae
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FNA
Resources
Ronald L. Hartman in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Herbs,
perennial, dioecious, with thick, woody crown.
Taproots
stout.
Stems
ascending to erect, branched distally, terete to angular, base densely woolly.
Leaves
opposite, connected by thickened ridge or transverse wing from which stipules arise, sessile; stipules 2 per node, white, triangular, margins jagged to ciliate, apex entire to 2-lobed; blade obscurely 1-veined, linear to lanceolate, somewhat succulent, apex acute to apiculate.
Inflorescences
reduced axillary cymes, proliferating with age; bracts paired, resembling stipules, smaller, scarious.
Flowers
functionally unisexual, sessile; hypanthium conic to urceolate, abruptly expanded distally; sepals 5, distinct, green, linear-elliptic to orbiculate, 1.1-2.1 mm, herbaceous, margins white, scarious, apex broadly rounded, not hooded, not awned; nectaries minute, reddish thickenings adaxially subtending filament bases; stamens 5, abortive or sterile in pistillate flowers; filaments distinct to base; staminodes 5, arising from hypanthium rim, alternating with stamens, petaloid, oblong; ovary sterile in staminate flowers; styles 3, connate in proximal 1/3- 3, filiform, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 3, linear along adaxial surface of styles, obscurely papillate (50×).
Modified utricles
ellipsoid, opening by 3 spreading, minute, toothlike valves.
Seeds
tan with red spot near one end, ovoid, slightly laterally compressed, minutely roughened, marginal wing absent, appendage absent; embryo central, straight to slightly curved.
Scopulophila rixfordii
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