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Polygala parryi A. W. Benn. Jour. Bot. 17: 140. 1879
Suffruticulose, several-stemmed from a creeping woody root, often decumbent below, branched, 9 cm. long or less, incurved-puberulous, not at all canescent; leaves oval to orbicular, 6-1 1 mm. long, 3-10 mm. wide, rounded to obtuse at both ends, distinctly mucronate, incurvedpuberulous, veinless except for the midnerve; racemes very short, axillary, 1-4-flowered, flexuous; flowers greenish; upper sepal oblong, obtusish, herbaceous, pubescent on costa and margin, 2 mm. long; lower sepals petaloid, greenish, narrowly oblong-obovate, 2.S mm. long; wings obovate, 3.5 mm. long, 1.4 mm. wide, apiculate; keel very blunt, 2.7 mm. long; capsule orbicular, venose, plump, sparingly incurved-puberulous, 3.5 mm. long; seed plump, short-pubescent, 2.5-2.8 mm. long; aril 1.5-1.6 mm. deep, with small corneous umbo and two oblong scarious appressed lateral lobes 1.2 mm. long.
Type locality: San Luis Potosi (state). Distribution: San Luis Potosi.
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John Kunkel Small, Lenda Tracy Hanks, Nathaniel Lord Britton. 1907. GERANIALES, GERANIACEAE, OXALIDACEAE, LINACEAE, ERYTHROXYLACEAE. North American flora. vol 25(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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