B77 



APACHE-PLUME 



Fallu'gia paradox'a, syn. Siever'sia paradox'a 



"Seeds" (achenes) numerous, soft- 

 hairy, narrowly oblong, tipped by 

 feathery tails (styles) up to 2 in. long,' 

 turning reddish in age 



Flowers large, showy, white, solitary 

 or sometimes clustered (panicled) at 

 ends of slender, elongated, nearly naked 

 flower stalks 



Outer flower parts (sepals) 5, soft- 

 hairy, with long-tapering or 3-cleft tips, 

 alternating with 5 linear bractlets, 

 which are sometimes 2-cleft at tips; 

 basal portion united into a short, hemi- 

 spherical cup (hypanthium, or calyx 

 tube) densely soft-hairy within 



Petals 5, large (K in. long), rounded, 

 spreading, attached at bases to rim of 

 hypanthium 



Stamens numerous, in 3 rows, at- 

 tached to rim of hypanthium 



Leaves somewhat soft-hairy, thick, up 

 to nearly 1 in. long, wedge-shaped in 

 outline, cut (pinnately divided) into 3 

 to 7 linear, blunt-tipped lobes, with 

 rolled-under margins, stalkless, borne 

 mostly in clusters or scattered singly 





