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Eremalche parryi
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 208. 1906.
EndemicIllustrated
Basionym: Malvastrum parryi Greene Fl. Francisc., 108. 1891
Synonyms: Sphaeralcea parryi (Greene) Jepson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 247.
Plants erect, main-stem unbranched or with ascending branches from base, 2–50 cm, densely hairy distally, hairs stellate, 1–3-armed, arms to 2 mm. Leaf-blades 3-cleft to beyond middle, usually 2–5 cm wide, divisions toothed to subcleft distally. Inflorescences usually exceeding leaves. Pedicels mostly 1–8 cm, longer in fruit; involucellar bractlets linear, (2.5–) 4–10 (–15) mm. Flowers bisexual or pistillate; calyx 4.5–13 mm, lobes 3.2–11 × 1.5–4 mm; petals white or pale to deep mauve, 5.5–20 (–25) mm, equaling or exceeding calyx. Mericarps 9–22, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.5–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated.
Discussion
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Flowers bisexual; petals mauve; calyx 10–14 mm, lobes 2.5–4 mm wide. | Eremalche parryi subsp. parryi |
| 1 | Flowers bisexual or pistillate; petals white or mauve, (proportionally smaller and carpels more numerous in female flowers); calyx 4.5–9(–10) mm, lobes 1.5–3(–3.5) mm wide. | Eremalche parryi subsp. kernensis |
... more about "Eremalche parryi"
monadelphous +
absent +
clawlike +
veined +
absent +
persistent +
distinct +
ascending +
not accrescent +
2;3;5 +
campanulate +
Calif. +
middle +
toothed +
wide +
glabrous +
sparse;copious +
connate +
pistillate +
congested +
corymbose +
bisexual +
depressed-discoid +
not inflated +
syncarpous +
1-3-armed +
stellate +
axillary +
tough-fibrous +
deciduous +
absent +
indehiscent +
spiral +
cauline +
not ribbed +
acuminate +
hairy +
corrugated +
rounded +
drying +
9;22 +
9-36-carpellate +
superior +
longer +
pale;deep mauve +
palmate +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. +
1906 +
black +
ascending +
glabrous +
obovoid-reniform +
folliclelike +
persistent +
connate +
5;many +
connate +
falling +
included +
toothed +
absent +
prostrate;erect +
hairy +
capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
caducous +
subulate +
9-36-branched +
Eremalche parryi +
Eremalche +
species +
mucilaginous +
annual +
stellate-hairy +
gynodioecious +