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Pogogyne tenuiflora is an extinct species of annual plant in the mint family. Endemic to Guadalupe Island in the eastern Pacific, the Guadalupe mesa mint was only known from a single specimen collected by Edward Palmer in 1875. The species was described from Palmer's specimens by Asa Gray in 1876.
Pogogyne tenuiflora is a small, aromatic annual herb, with inflorescences consisting of flowers in bracteate verticils forming dense terminal spikes. The corollas are blue-purple and tubular, with an erect, entire upper lip and a spreading 3-lobed lower lip. The corollas measure 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55 in) long. The lower pair of stamens measure 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long. The style is bearded for about 3 mm (0.12 in) below the branches. The two sterile upper anthers place this species within the Hedeomoides subgenus of Pogogyne, which was recognized as its own genus by John Isaac Briquet in 1896.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pogogyne tenuiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
