CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Proboscidea sabulosa
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Proboscidea sabulosa is Not Sponsored |
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Primary
custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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Kathleen C. Rice contributed to this Plant Profile. |
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Proboscidea sabulosa is an annual, hairy- and sticky-leaved herb with rounded leaves. Plants are about 0.4 m across and high, with rounded dark green leaves that are very glandular and somewhat pungent. The creamy white, purple spotted flowers grow in clusters under leaves. The woody fruits are large and distinctive, forming two long curved horns at maturity. The large seeds, approximately 1 cm long, are corky. Native Americans used the fruits in basket-making, and pickled the young fruits.
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References |
Correll, D.S.; Johnston, M.C. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas. Renner: Texas Research Foundation. 1881p. |
Henrickson, J.; Johnston, M.C. 1997. A flora of the Chihuahuan Desert region. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1993. Species distribution data for vascular plants of 70 geographical areas, from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1996. Species distribution data at state and province level for vascular plant taxa of the United States, Canada, and Greenland (accepted records), from unpublished data files at the North Carolina Botanical Garden. |
Warnock, B.H. 1994. Wildflowers of the Guadalupe Mountains and the sand dune country, Texas. Alpine, Texas: Sul Ross State Univ. 176p. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. In: Kartesz, J.T.; Meacham, C.A., editors. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chapel Hill, NC. |
New Mexico Native plants Protection Advisory Committee. 1984 A handbook of rare and endemic plants of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. |
(1999). New Mexico Rare Plants Information. New Mexico Rare Plant Technical Council: Albuquerque, NM. Version 15. http://nmrareplants.unm.edu/nmrptc/rarelist.htm. Accessed: 2002. |
(2000). Center for Plant Conservation's National Living Collection--Profiles. Desert Botanical Garden. http://www.dbg.org/Collections/cpc.html. Accessed: 2002. |
Bretting, P.K.; Nilsson, S. 1988. Pollen morphology of the Martyniaceae and its systematic implications. Systematic Botany. 13, 1: 51-59. |
Correll, D.S. 1966. Some additions and corrections to the Flora of Texas - III. Rhodora. 68: 426-428. |
Van Eseltine, G.A. 1929. A preliminary study of the unicorn plants. New York Agr. Exp. Sta. Tech. Gull. 149 |
Sivinski, R.; Cully, A. 1990. Status report on Proboscidea sabulosa. Albuquerque, New Mexico: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office. |
Bretting, P.K. 1981. A systematic and ethnobotanical survey of Proboscidea and allied genera of the Martyniaceae. [Ph.D. Thesis]: Indiana University. Bloomington. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |