Atraphaxis pyrifolia

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderCaryophyllales
5. FamilyPolygonaceae

Native toAfghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Pakistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang

Observations155

Shrubs ca. 1 m tall, much branched. Stem stout, tortuous, with gray-brown bark; epidermis splitting longitudinally; woody branches grayish white, straight or tortuous, apex without leaves, acuminate or spiny; herbaceous branchlets of current year glabrous, soon becoming lignified, spiny at apex. Petiole short, 1/6-1/3 length of blade; leaf blade green, broadly elliptic or obovate, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.3 cm, both surfaces glabrous, reticulate veins prominent abaxially, margin entire or slightly crenate; ocrea brown at base, cylindric, membranous and pellucid in upper part, deeply cleft into 2 or 3 lanceolate or broadly lanceolate lobes; veins 2 or 3. Pedicel ca. 1 cm, jointed usually at lower 1/3 or below middle. Flowers dense in racemes at lateral branchlets of current year. Tepals 5, light yellow or yellow-red; outer tepals reflexed in fruit, ovate or narrowly ovate, ca. as long as above-joint portion of pedicel; inner tepals broadly elliptic or orbicular-cordate, 6-7 × 7-8 mm. Achenes light brown, shiny, trigonous-ovoid, smooth. Fl. and fr. May-Jun.

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🔬Museum specimens

Specimen records

23

With media

17

Family

Polygonaceae

Collections

MICH, US, ILLS, MO, RSA, COLO

Recorded in

Ussr, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan

Wikidata facts

Instance of

taxon

Parent taxon

Atraphaxis

Image

Atraphaxis pyrifolia.JPG

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