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Pouzolzia
Family:
Urticaceae
FNA
Resources
David E. Boufford in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Herbs or subshrubs [and shrubs], perennial, with nonstinging hairs. Stems simple, erect. Leaves alternate, less often opposite; stipules present. blades elliptic, lanceolate, or ovate, margins entire; cystoliths rounded. Inflorescences axillary. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate flowers in sessile or subsessile clusters in same inflorescences; bracts oblanceolate, lacking hooked hairs. Staminate flowers: tepals 4, equal; stamens 4; pistillode present. Pistillate flowers: tepals 4, connate, appressed to and tightly enclosing ovary; staminodes absent; style deciduous, elongate. Achenes ovoid, acute, not mucronate, tightly enclosed by persistent tepals. x = 13.
Species within checklist:
Sonoran Desert Region
Pouzolzia occidentalis
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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