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|accepted_name=Acleisanthes acutifolia
|accepted_authority=Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|place=12: 370. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Havard’s trumpets
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Acleisanthes;Acleisanthes acutifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Acleisanthes]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Acleisanthes acutifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 31, 34
|treatment_page=page 36
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>herbaceous, overall pubescence mixture of capitate-glandular hairs 0.2–0.3 mm and white, capitate, shorter hairs 0.1–0.2 mm. <b>Stems</b> decumbent to ascending, much branched, 10–40 cm, hirtellous to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> yellowish green, usually petiolate, distalmost sessile or nearly so, those of pair subequal; petiole 1–15 mm, puberulent to hirtellous; blade oval to oblong-elliptic, (5–)10–50 × 3–20(–25) mm, base acute to obtuse, margins crispate or undulate, apex apiculate and acute to obtuse or infrequently rounded; margins and adaxial midveins puberulent or occasionally hirtellous. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers, sessile or nearly so; bracts linear to subulate, 3–10 mm, hirtellous to puberulent. <b>Flowers</b>: chasmogamous perianth 2–5 cm, puberulent, tube 1–1.5 mm diam., limbs 10–30 mm diam., stamens 5; cleistogamous perianth 4–10 mm, hirtellous, stamens 2(–5). <b>Fruits</b> with 5 narrow sulci and 5 broad, smooth ribs extending past glands, each bearing sticky, resinous gland in constriction below apex, ovate-oblong, constricted 0.5–1 mm below apex, 5–8 mm, base tapering, apex truncate, sparsely puberulent or glabrous.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Calcareous or gypseous soils in grasslands and shrublands
|elevation=700-2500 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Zacatecas).
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name=Acleisanthes acutifolia
|author=
|authority=Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–fall.
|habitat=Calcareous or gypseous soils in grasslands and shrublands
|elevation=700-2500 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico (Chihuahua;Coahuila;Durango;Zacatecas).
|reference=None
|publication title=Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb.
|publication year=1909
|special status=
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|genus=Acleisanthes
|species=Acleisanthes acutifolia
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