Leachlobe Cyphomeris

Herbs, finely pubescent with pale, curved hairs (rarely capitate-glandular). Stems ascending to trailing, 5-20 dm. Leaf blades rhombic to ovate or broadly oblong, proximal blades 10-50 × 8-40 mm, proportionately about as wide as distal blades, margins usually sinuate, often undulate, pubescent. Perianths pale pink to deep pink or red-violet [greenish white], 6-8 mm. Fruits notably gibbous, 6-8[-11] mm, usually prominently warty at least on gibbous side.

Tex.; ne Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas).

Flowering late spring-fall.

Fine or rocky soils, flats, washes, slopes, roadsides, desert to semiarid or subtropical scrub; 0-100[-2000]m.

Senkenbergia crassifolia Standley, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 12: 373. 1909

Cyphomeris crassifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13:
428. 1911.
Senkenbergia crassifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 373. 1909.
Plants 6-10 dm. high', suffruticose below, much branched, the branches slender, palegreen, finely and sparsely puberulent, the branches of the inflorescence glabrous; petioles 0.4-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades rhombic, broadly oblong, or rhombic-ovate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide truncate to rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, coarsely sinuate-lobate, green above, paler beneath, densely and finely puberulent; racemes 5-10 cm. long, the flowers on pedicels 1 mm. long; bracts lance-linear, 4-5 mm. long, green, glabrous; perianth 6-7 mm. long, glabrous, the tube very short, the limb 7 mm. broad; stamens long-exserted; fruit 7 mm. long, short-stipitate, 2 mm. thick in the widest part.
Type locality : Saltillo, Coahuila. Distribution: Nuevo Le6n and Coahuila.

Cyphomeris crassifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13:
428. 1911.
Senkenbergia crassifolia Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 373. 1909.
Plants 6-10 dm. high", suffruticose below, much branched, the branches slender, palegreen, finely and sparsely puberulent, the branches of the inflorescence glabrous; petioles 0.4-2.5 cm. long; leaf-blades rhombic, broadly oblong, or rhombic-ovate, 1.5-3 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide truncate to rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, obtuse or acutish at the apex, coarsely sinuate-lobate, green above, paler beneath, densely and finely puberulent; racemes 5-10 cm. long, the flowers on pedicels 1 mm. long; bracts lance-linear, 4—5 mm. long, green, glabrous; perianth 6-7 mm. long, glabrous, the tube very short, the limb 7 mm. broad; stamens long-exserted ; fruit 7 mm. long, short-stipitate, 2 mm. thick in the widest part.
Type locality: Saltillo, Coahuila. Distribution: Nuevo lje6n and Coahuila.