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FAGONIA
Perennial, shrub.
Stem: < 1 m, spreading, angled or ridged.
Leaf: palmately compound; stipules stiff, spine-tipped; leaflets 3, spine-tipped, terminal largest.
Inflorescence: flowers 1 in axils.
Flower: sepals deciduous; petals clawed, twisted, purple to pink, deciduous.
Fruit: capsule, deeply 5-lobed, obovoid, loculicidal; style persistent; pedicel reflexed.
Seed: 1 per chamber.
35 species: sw North America, sw South America, Canary I. to India, sw Africa. (Guy-Crescent Fagon, French botanist, chemist, physician to Louis XIV, 1638–1718) [Beier 2005 Syst Biodivers 3:221–263]
Unabridged species in genus: [35 species: sw North America, sw South America, Canary I. and Cape Verde I. to Afghanistan and India, sw Africa.]

Key to Fagonia

1. St ascending to erect, scabrous; glands only on youngest herbage, << 0.1 mm wide; stipules above base curved; leaflets lanceolate ..... F. laevis

1' St prostrate, not scabrous; glands on youngest herbage and elsewhere, ± 0.15 mm wide; stipules above base straight; leaflets elliptic to ovate ..... F. pachyacantha

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