Purple False Horkelia

(Horkeliella purpurascens)

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Description

Plants green or grayish green to gray, non-glandular hairs sparse to dense, often obscuring stipitate-glandular ones. Basal leaves (5�)7�17(�20) cm; petiole 1�5 cm; leaflets 15�30(�35) per side, (2�)3�10(�20) mm, divided into 3�6 ultimate segments, hirsute (sometimes densely so) and villous (especially marginally), infrequently viscid-stipitate-glandular, or nearly glabrous except for villous tuft at apex. Cauline leaves 2�4, 2�10 cm. Inflorescences � open. Pedicels (1�)2�10(�15) mm. Flowers 10�15 mm diam., epicalyx bractlets linear to narrowly ovate, 1.5�3 mm; sepals 3�6 mm, hirsute, sparsely villous, sometimes minutely glandular or stipitate-glandular; petals oblanceolate to narrowly spatulate or oblong, 3�7 mm; filaments 1�2.5 mm, filament opposite center of sepal shorter than those on either side, anthers 0.5�0.8(�1) mm; styles 2.5�4 mm.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Horkeliella
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