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|accepted_name=Krameria ramosissima
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=17: 326. 1882
|year=1882
}}
|common_names=Agarito;calderona
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Krameria parvifolia var. ramosissima
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication_place=3(5): 42. 1852
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Krameriaceae;Krameria;Krameria ramosissima
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Krameriaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Krameria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Krameria ramosissima]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 25
|treatment_page=page 27
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> slightly mounding, 0.3–1 m. <b>Stems</b> erect, with long and short shoots, young branches strigose, light green, becoming gray with age, tips of long shoots thorny. <b>Leaves</b>: blade linear to ovate, on long shoots to 10 × 0.7–1 mm, on short shoots 3–5 × 0.7–2 mm, ape\× obtuse, surfaces strigose to villous, lacking glandular hairs. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers (on both long and short shoots, often appearing clustered in short shoots). <b>Flowers</b>: sepals ± cupped around petals and gynoecium, pink, ovate to oblong, 7–10 mm; secretory petals dark pink to brick red, 2–3 mm, with oil-filled blisters mostly on distal portions of outer surfaces; petaloid petals 5–6 mm, connate basally, distinct portions yellow or green basally, purple or dark pink tinged with lavender or purple distally, oblanceolate to reniform, 2–3 mm; stamens didynamous; ovary strigose; style greenish white. <b>Capsules</b> circular to cordate in outline, with longitudinal ridge on each face, 5–6 mm diam., sparsely to moderately strigose, spines stout, 0.5–1.5 mm, each glabrous, sometimes with minute serrations near tip. <b>2n</b> = 12.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Arid areas, sand, limestone, caliche, shale.
|elevation=0–600 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|discussion=<p>In Texas, <i>Krameria ramosissima</i> is known from counties along the Mexican border from the middle to lower Rio Grande valley.</p>
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name=Krameria ramosissima
|authority=(A. Gray) S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Krameria parvifolia var. ramosissima
|family=Krameriaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Arid areas, sand, limestone, caliche, shale.
|elevation=0–600 m.
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Coahuila;Nuevo León;Tamaulipas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1882
|special status=
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|genus=Krameria
|species=Krameria ramosissima
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