Pectocarya
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 Pectocarya recurvata (fruit)
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Pectocarya is a plant genus of about 15[verification needed] species in the family Boraginaceae. Plants in this genus are known generally as combseeds. They are small annual plants which bear tiny white flowers no more than 3 millimeters in diameter. Their fruits are nutlets which often have small projections that look like the teeth of a comb, hence their common name. The nutlets usually come in clusters of four. These plants are found mainly in western North America.
Selected species:
- Pectocarya heterocarpa – Chuckwalla Combseed
- Pectocarya linearis – Sagebrush Combseed
- Pectocarya palmeri
- Pectocarya penicillata – Sleeping Combseed, Winged Combseed, Shortleaf Combseed
- Pectocarya peninsularis – Peninsula Combseed
- Pectocarya platycarpa – Broadfruit Combseed
- Pectocarya pusilla – Little Combseed, "purple prairieclover"
- Pectocarya recurvata – Curvenut Combseed, combbur
- Pectocarya setosa – Moth Combseed
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