Bouvardia ternifolia (Cav.) Schlecht. 
Family: Rubiaceae
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[Bouvardia glaberrima Engelm.]
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Liz Makings  
Photographer: Liz Makings
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Locality: Wallace Botanical Garden, North Scottsdale
 
Plant: Shrubs or suffrutescent herbs; to 1.5 m high Leaves: 3-4 per node, glabrous or velvety, 2-9 cm long, short- petiolate; blades ovate to lanceolate, the apices acuminate to long-attenuate, the margins scabrous; stipular sheath long cuspidate to multi-aristate. Flowers: few to many in cymes, villous outside with short coarse hairs; calyx lobes lanceolate to filiform, erect; corolla tube slender, widening toward throat, red, 15-32 mm long, the lobes ovate, 2-3 mm long; stamens mostly included, the anthers subsessile, 2.5-3 mm long; styles filiform, more or less exserted at maturity Fruit: a didymous-globose capsule, 5-7 mm broad, the calyx lobes persistent. SEEDS numerous, compressed-winged, brown Misc: Rocky slopes and canyon bottoms; pine-oak and juniper-oak woodlands; oak chaparral; granite sand; 750-2450 m (2500-8000 ft); May-Oct REFERENCES: Dempster, Lauramay T. 1995. Rubiaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Sci. 29(l): 29.
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L.R. Landrum  
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Mark A. Dimmitt  
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L. R. Landrum  
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Mark A. Dimmitt  
Photographer: L.R. Landrum
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Photographer: Mark A. Dimmitt
Manager: ASDM Sonora Desert Digital Library
Locality: Yecora, Son. (Mesa del Campanero)
Copyright: © 2003 ASDM
Photographer: L. R. Landrum
Manager: ASU Vascular Plant Herbarium
Photographer: Mark A. Dimmitt
Manager: ASDM Sonora Desert Digital Library
Locality: Sycamore Canyon (Pajarito Mts), AZ
Copyright: © 1982 ASDM
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