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Atamisquea emarginata
Miers ex Hooker & Arnott, Bot. Misc. 3: 143. 1833.
Palo-zorillo
Capparis atamisquea
Kuntze
Shrubs or multi-trunked trees,
1-8 m.
Stems
branched at right angles, ± terete; branchlets with lepidote scales.
Leaves:
petiole 1-1.2 mm; blade 1-3(-5) × 0.2-0.6 cm, base rounded, apex shallowly emarginate to rounded, abaxial surface densely lepidote, adaxial surface smooth.
Inflorescences
terminating spur shoots, 1-3 cm, lepidote.
Pedicels
3-4 mm.
Flowers:
sepals (reflexed at anthesis), ovate, proximal pair 0.8-1.5 mm, distal pair 3-3.5 × 2.5 mm, abaxially lepidote, adaxially tomentose, hairs simple; petals white, oblong, 3-6.5 × 2-3 mm; staminodia 0-3; gynophore 3-8 mm.
Capsules
8-11 × 5-6 mm, dehiscing into 2-4 segments, constricted between seeds, mesocarp red.
Seeds
3.8-5 mm.
2
n
= 16.
Flowering early summer. Desert scrub, arroyos or flats; 50-200 m; Ariz.; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora); South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile).
