Yellow Stingbush (Eucnide bartonioides)
Description
Eucnide bartonioides Zucc. is a widespread, variable species occurring from south-central Texas to San Luis Potosi in northeastern Mexico (Thompson and Ernst 1967, Fig. 2, 3). Most specimens possess relatively large yellow flowers (petals 2.5-4.0 cm long), but as Thompson and Ernst note, -The size of the corolla (and the leaves) is quite variable. The small flowered forms can be confusingly similar to depauperate plants of Eucnide lobata even though these two species normally are quite distinct.- The present paper has to do with the biological status of small flowered plants from the Edwards Plateau of central Texas, which were called to the fore by Turner et al. (2003), but are treated herein as a distinct entity, as follows.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Cornales
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Family: Loasaceae
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Genus: Eucnide
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