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Krameria erecta
PIMA RHATANY, PURPLE HEATHER, LITTLE-LEAVED RHATANY

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Family: KrameriaceaeView Description 

Common Name: RHATANY FAMILY
Habit: Shrub [perennial herb], green root-parasite. Stem: prostrate to erect, much-branched. Leaf: generally simple [1-ternate], alternate, crowded on short-shoots or not, sessile [petioled]; stipules 0; blade linear to ovate, hairy, glandular or not, tip abruptly pointed. Inflorescence: flowers 1 in axils [terminal racemes]; pedicel jointed, bractlets 2. Flower: bisexual, bilateral; sepals 4--5, free, petal-like, magenta, red-purple [yellow]; petals generally 5, 3 upper linear to clawed, free or fused basally, held in +- upright flag, 2 lower modified as glands; stamens generally 4, fused to flag base, upcurved, anthers opening by pores; ovary superior, hairy, style slender, upcurved. Fruit: nut-like, with smooth or barbed prickles; seed 1.
Genera In Family: 1 genus, 18 species: America, arid semitropics, tropics. Note: Pollinating bees collect oils secreted by glandular petals.
eFlora Treatment Author: Beryl B. Simpson
Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Genus: KrameriaView DescriptionDichotomous Key

Common Name: RHATANY

Etymology: (Johann Georg Heinrich Kramer, 1684--1744, Austrian Army physician, botanist)

Krameria erecta Schult.
NATIVE
Habit: Plant +- strigose to canescent or +- silky-hairy. Stem: < 2 m; branches often ascending, tips not thorn-like. Leaf: +- linear to lance-linear. Flower: buds ovate, +- curved; sepals magenta; flag petals +- yellow to green at base, triangular, green and magenta, with +- purple marks above or not; glandular petals magenta with unequal glandular blisters on distal edge abaxially. Fruit: cordate, +- flat.
Ecology: Dry, rocky ridges, slopes; Elevation: < 1200 m. Bioregional Distribution: e PR (Santa Rosa Mtns), D; Distribution Outside California: to Nevada, Texas, northern Mexico. Flowering Time: Mar--May
Synonyms: Krameria glandulosa Rose & Painter; Krameria parvifolia Benth.; Krameria parvifolia var. imparata J.F. Macbr.;
eFlora Treatment Author: Beryl B. Simpson
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Citation for this treatment: Beryl B. Simpson 2012, Krameria erecta, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30007, accessed on July 16, 2018.

Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2018, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on July 16, 2018.

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Geographic subdivisions for Krameria erecta:
e PR (Santa Rosa Mtns), D;		 Markers link to CCH specimen records. Yellow markers indicate records that may provide evidence for eFlora range revision or may have georeferencing or identification issues. Purple markers indicate specimens collected from a garden, greenhouse, or other non-wild location.
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(Note: any qualifiers in the taxon distribution description, such as 'northern', 'southern', 'adjacent' etc., are not reflected in the map above, and in some cases indication of a taxon in a subdivision is based on a single collection or author-verified occurence).

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