EcoFlora - Anoda

Anoda
Family: Malvaceae Frankie Coburn	VPAP Gleason & Cronquist Resources JANAS 27(2) PLANT: Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, variously pubescent to glabrate. LEAVES: linear, lanceolate, ovate, hastately lobed, or palmately divided, usually reduced upward. FLOWERS: in racemes or panicles, sometimes solitary in the leafaxils; involucel absent; calyx 5-lobed; petals yellow, lavender, or bluish-purple; stamens usually numerous; pistil 5-19-carpelled, with as many styles, the stigmas capitate. FRUIT: schizocarpic, oblate or disk-shaped, puberulent to hispid; mericarps 5-19, often with a spur or spine at dorsal angle, the lateral walls disintegrating at maturity. SEEDS: solitary, sometimes enclosed in a reticulate endocarp. NOTES: 23 spp., principally from Mexico and the sw U.S., with one weedy species also occurring to S. Amer. and elsewhere. (Ceylonese vernacular name, anoda, originally given to a species of Abutilon). Fryxell, P. A. 1987. Aliso 11:485-522. REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236. Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada Much like Sida, but the lateral walls separating the carpels eventually obliterated. 10, warm New World. Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp. ©The New York Botanical Garden. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora Anoda abutiloides Map not Available Anoda crenatiflora Map not Available Anoda cristata Map not Available Anoda hintoniorum Map not Available Anoda lanceolata Map not Available Anoda maculata Map not Available Anoda pentaschista Map not Available Anoda reticulata Map not Available Anoda thurberi Map not Available