''Acleisanthes nevadensis'' (
syn.
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''Selinocarpus nevadensis'') is a species of flowering plant in the
four o'clock family
Nyctaginaceae, the four o'clock family, is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a unique fruit t ...
known by the common names desert moonpod and desert wing-fruit. It is native to a section of the southwestern United States encompassing southern
Nevada
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and adjacent corners of
Utah
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and
Arizona
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. One occurrence has been observed in eastern
California
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.
California Native Plant Society
The plant grows in desert habitat such as scrub and rocky washes. This herb produces several spreading stems up to about 30 centimeters in maximum length, sometimes from a woody base. The stems are covered in many leaves with fleshy oval or rounded blades up to 3 centimeters long which are borne on petioles. The herbage of the plant is coated in thick, wide, white, furry hairs, interspersed with shorter, flat hairs. Some hairs are glandular. Flowers occur in leaf axils. Each is a trumpet-shaped bloom with a narrow, tubular green throat up to 4 centimeters long and a round white corolla face about a centimeter wide, sometimes tinged yellow or greenish. There are five long, protruding stamen
The stamen (plural ''stamina'' or ''stamens'') is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower. Collectively the stamens form the androecium., p. 10
Morphology and terminology
A stamen typically consists of a stalk called the filame ...
s and a long style
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tipped with a spherical stigma. The fruit is a ribbed, hairy body with five broad, white wings.
References
External links
Jepson Manual TreatmentUSDA Plants ProfileFlora of North AmericaPhoto gallery
Nyctaginaceae
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