Petalonyx
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Petalonyx is a small genus of flowering plants native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They are known commonly as sandpaper plants, and are most often found in warm, dry desert regions. Sandpaper plants are subshrub
s that get their common name from their rough foliage, which is covered in tiny, stiffly curved hairs. They bear raceme
s of claw-shaped flowers with long stamen
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Subshrub
A subshrub or dwarf shrub is a short woody plant. Prostrate shrub is a similar term.It is distinguished from a shrub by its ground-hugging stems and lower height, with overwintering perennial woody growth typically less than 10–20 cm tall, or by being only weakly woody and/or persisting...
s that get their common name from their rough foliage, which is covered in tiny, stiffly curved hairs. They bear raceme
Raceme
A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...
s of claw-shaped flowers with long stamen
Stamen
The stamen is the pollen producing reproductive organ of a flower...
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Species:
- Petalonyx linearisPetalonyx linearisPetalonyx linearis is a species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae known by the common name narrowleaf sandpaper plant. It is native to the deserts of eastern California, western Arizona and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in scrub and other habitat...
- narrowleaf sandpaper plant - Petalonyx nitidusPetalonyx nitidusPetalonyx nitidus is a species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae known by the common name shinyleaf sandpaper plant. It is native to the deserts and desert mountains of the southwestern United States, where it grows in scrub, woodland, and other habitat. It is a clumpy subshrub made up of...
- shinyleaf sandpaper plant - Petalonyx parryi - Parry's sandpaper plant
- Petalonyx thurberiPetalonyx thurberiPetalonyx thurberi is a species of flowering plant in the family Loasaceae known by the common name Thurber's sandpaper plant. It is native to the deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, where it grows in sandy and scrubby habitat. It is a rounded or spreading, clumpy...
- Thurber's sandpaper plant