Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Thryallis angustifolia (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 89. 1891
Galphimia angustifolia Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 9 : 1844.
Galphimia linifolia A. Gray, Gen. 111. 2 : 196. 1849.
Galphimia linifolia oblongifolia A. Gray, PI. Wright. 1 : 36. 1852.
Galphimia angustifolia oblongifolia S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 24: 42. 1889.
Thryallis linifolia Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 1 : 89. 1891.
Thryallis angustifolia oblongifolia Vail, Bull. Torrey Club 22 : 228. 1895.
Plants with tufted usually strigose stems and branches ; leaf-blades linear or lanceolate, or those of the lower leaves sometimes ovate, oblong, or oval, mostly 1-4 cm. long, acute or abruptly pointed or obtuse, with 2 glands near the base, paler beneath than above, shortpetioled ; panicles loosely few-flowered, the rachis strigillose ; sepals oblong to lanceolate, 3-4 mm. long ; corolla yellow, turning reddish, the larger petals 4-5 mm. long, the blades triangular-ovate to oblong-ovate ; capsules 3-4 mm. long, the faces slightly wrinkled ; seeds about 1.5 mm. long, shining.
Type locality : Cape San Lucas, Lower California.
Distribution : Texas and northern Mexico.
- bibliographic citation
- 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
