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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, tree, vine, some non-green, dependent on fungi for nutrition; hairs unbranched
Leaves simple, generally alternate (rarely opposite or whorled); veins pinnate; margin generally ± entire; stipules generally 0
Inflorescence: raceme, spike, or panicle
Flower bisexual, generally bilateral (appearing ± pea-flower-like) or ± radial; sepals 5, free or fused, lateral (inner) pair often larger and petal-like (wings); petals 5 or 3, individually fused to stamen tube, ± similar or different with 1 lower keel petal, 2 strap-like upper petals, and 0 or 2 small lateral petals; stamens 310, ± fused, tube open on upper side; ovary chambers 18, ovule 1 per chamber, style 1 or 0
Fruit: capsule, drupe, or nut, sometimes winged
Seed often with aril
Genera in family: 18 genera, 800 species: especially tropical, subtropical; very few cultivated
Reference: [Blake 1924 N Amer Fl 25:305379]
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, tree, vine; roots generally with wintergreen odor
Inflorescence: raceme or spike, sometimes grouped and panicle-like
Flower bilateral; lateral 2 sepals enlarged as wings; petals 3 or 5, keel petal often with cylindric beak or fringed crest at tip; stamens 68, anthers dehiscent at tip, appearing 1-chambered; nectary disk or gland present; ovary chambers 2, stigma 2-lobed
Fruit: capsule
Seed fusiform or ovoid, black, generally hairy, generally with prominent white aril on one end
Species in genus: ± 500 species: tropical, temp
Etymology: (Greek: much milk, some Eur species said to increase milk flow in cows)
Reference: [Wendt 1979 J Arnold Arbor 60:504514]
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Subshrub, shrub; hairs spreading
Stem weak and sprawling to erect, generally not highly branched, < 10 dm; twig hairs dense, white
Leaf 525 mm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or obovate, hairy
Inflorescence thorn-tipped; flowers 115; pedicels 1.55.8 mm, hairy
Flower 35.3 mm; outer sepals hairy, wings cream; beak of keel-petal 0 or minute
Fruit 46 mm
Chromosomes: n=9
Ecology: Desert scrub, Joshua-tree or pinyon/juniper woodlands, often loose, sandy or gravelly soils
Elevation: 9001700 m.
Bioregional distribution: Mojave Desert (Eagle, New York mtns, Lucerne Valley)
Distribution outside California: to s Utah, Arizona
Flowering time: MayAug