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THYSANOCARPUS LACEPOD, FRINGEPOD
Annual; hairs 0 or simple.
Leaf: simple, sessile, entire, dentate, or pinnately lobed; middle, distal cauline clasping, lobed or not.
Inflorescence: open ( dense).
Flower: sepals ascending, base not sac-like; petals ± >= sepals, white or ± purple-tinged, not clawed.
Fruit: silicle, indehiscent, elliptic to ovate or round, flat, unsegmented, pendulous; septum 0; wing entire or lobed, generally perforated, veins radiating or not; stigma entire.
Seed: 1, elliptic to round, wingless.
5 species: w North America. (Greek: fringe fruit) Revised taxonomy, too late for full treatment here, including Thysanocarpus desertorum A. Heller [Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. hitchcockii], Thysanocarpus rigidus (Munz) P.J. Alexander & Windham [Thysanocarpus laciniatus var. rigidus], 5 subspp. of Thysanocarpus curvipes (Alexander et al. 2010 Syst Bot 35:559–577).

Key to Thysanocarpus

1. Pedicel sharply reflexed near tip, proximal 7–18 mm; fruit 7–10 mm wide, wing rays ± 0.1 mm wide ..... T. radians

1' Pedicel ± curved or straight, proximal 2–7(12) mm; fruit 2.5–6(9) mm wide, wing rays 0, or 0.2–0.5 mm wide

2. Fr round, bowl-shaped, wing strongly curved towards flat or concave side; pedicel straight or ± curved ..... T. conchuliferus

2' Fr obovate to round, flat, wing flat or ± curved towards convex side; pedicel curved

3. Mid-cauline leaves lanceolate, sagittate or generally clasping at base; basal leaves sparsely hairy (glabrous), entire or dentate, not pinnately lobed ..... T. curvipes

3' Mid-cauline leaves linear, tapered at base (minutely lobed); basal leaves generally glabrous, generally pinnately lobed or wavy-dentate ..... T. laciniatus

4. Fr hairs club-shaped, 0.05–0.1 mm ..... var. hitchcockii

4' Fr glabrous or hairs occasionally club-shaped, 0.2–0.4 mm

5. Pedicels gently recurved; leaves ± green throughout (base ± purple); basal leaves pinnately lobed or wavy-dentate ..... var. laciniatus

5' Pedicels ± straight; leaves ± purple throughout; basal leaves ± entire to wavy-dentate ..... var. rigidus

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