Abronia latifolia Eschsch.

Abronia latifolia Eschsch. M£m. Acad. St.-P6tersb. 5: 271. 1826
Abronia avenaria Menzies; Hook. Exot. Fl. pi. 193. 1827. Tricratus arenarius Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 53. 1827.
Perennial, from an elongate fleshy root, this 2-10 cm. in diameter and often 30 cm. long or longer; stems very stout, 3-10 dm. long, sparingly branched, prostrate, densely glandularpuberulent, the internodes mostly longer than the leaves; petioles stout, 1-6 cm. long, viscidpuberulent; leaf-blades orbicular to oval, rounded-deltoid, or reniform, 1.5-4 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, obtuse to subcordate at the base, sometimes short-decurrent, broadly rounded at the apex, thick and succulent, sparsely or densely and minutely viscid-puberulent, or sometimes glabrate; peduncles stout or slender, 2-10 cm. long, viscid-puberulent or viscidvillous ; bracts 5, broadly ovate or ovate-oval, 5-7 mm. long, 3-4 mm. wide, obtuse or acute, scarious, viscid-puberulent or short-villous; flowers numerous, the perianth 13-15 mm. long, the tube slender, short-villous or viscid-puberulent, greenish-yellow, the limb 5-8 mm. broad, yellow; fruit biturbinate, 8-15 mm. long, deeply 5-lobed, coriaceous, puberulent, 1-costate in the angles, the lobes compressed, winglike, trans verseveined, attenuate upward or subtruncate; seed elliptic-oblong, 4-5 mm. long, brown.
Type locality: California.
Distribution: Sandy seashores, southern British Columbia to Santa Barbara County, California.