Etymology |
From the Latin: vulva meaning "external female genitalia" |
Description: |
Ill-scented annual, much branched from the base and often throughout, the branches ascending, 1.5-4 dm. long, slender or stout, copiously farinose; petioles half as long as the blades or longer, often equaling them; leaf-blades rhombic-ovate to ovate-orbicular, 1-3.5 cm. long and as wide, rounded to acutish at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, entire, thick, copiously farinose beneath, often glabrate on the upper surface; flowers in small glomerules, these in slender or stout, usually dense, paniculate spikes, the inflorescence little branched, usually leafy; calyx densely farinose, the lobes obtuse, rounded on the back, completely enclosing the fruit; pericarp adherent; seed horizontal, depressed-globose, dull, slightly puncticulate, black, 1 mm. broad, the margin rounded. - Standley |
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USA: AL, CA, MD, NJ, NM, PA |
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Website Info: |
We thank all the Herbaria who have very generously have allowed us to display their images. All images with a RED outline were either provided by the linked Herbaria or given us access to their website to obtain such images, or they were scanned while on loan to us. Please see the credits and further information by clicking on the Herbaria acronyms. The specimens’ images without such red outline, were taken by us during our research visits. All fruit and seed images have been taken with the Visionary Digital Microscope System, Dun, Inc. Palmyra, VA by Lee Simpson at San Diego State University. Website development by Lee Simpson. Contact: sdsuherbarium@sdsu.edu |
Specimens:
CAS 337926 | CAS 593749 |
CDA 3107 L. Brown 7-21-1961 |
CDA 3108 J. Detor 823-58 |
G-DC 341-14 |
GH Metcalfe 7-27-1903 |
GH Parker 7-27-1879 |
MO 5426834 Reed 32684 |
NY Adison Brown July 1880 |
NY Curtis 6866 |
NY Howell-True 47694 |
RENO 25337 J. Alexander 1885 |