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Fouquieria
Family: Fouquieriaceae
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Max Licher
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PLANT: Spiny shrubs or trees. LEAVES: on new long growth petioled soon deciduous in dry weather, the petioles in part remaining as a spine when the leaf falls; secondary leaves sessile or nearly so, borne in fascicles on short shoots in axils of spines. INFLORESCENCE: terminal spikes, racemes, or panicles. FLOWERS: red, yellow, white, or purple; sepals 5 free; petals 5 united into a cylindrical tube; stamens 10-15(-23), adnate to corolla tube; pistil 3-carpelled, the ovary superior, 3-loculed. FRUITS: 3-valved capsules. x = 12. NOTES: 1 genus; sw US; Mex.
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Fouquieria burragei
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Fouquieria campanulata
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Fouquieria columnaris
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Fouquieria diguetii
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Fouquieria fasciculata
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Fouquieria formosa
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Fouquieria leonilae
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Fouquieria macdougalii
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Fouquieria ochoterenae
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Fouquieria peninsularis
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Fouquieria purpusii
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Fouquieria shrevei
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Fouquieria splendens
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Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)
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