Malacothamnus abbottii
Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 129. 1951.
Shrubs, to 1.5 m, branches slender, flexuous, indument complex: white, dense, sublepidote, hairs simple, fine, not shaggy, or stellate, sessile, many-armed. Leaf-blades ovate, unlobed or 3-lobed, 3–6.5 cm, thin, surfaces: copiously white-stellate, basal sinus open, not overlapping. Inflorescences open-paniculate, flowers solitary or in pedunculate clusters, loose, not subtended by conspicuous bracts, flowers 3 or 4 per node; involucellar bractlets lanceolate, 5–8 × 1–1.5 mm, 1/2–3/4 calyx length. Flowers: calyx slightly winged in bud, 9–11 mm, lobes ovate-acuminate, 6–7.5 × 2.5–3.5 mm, ca. 2 times as long as wide, 2–3 times tube length, apex acuminate, densely stellate; petals pale-pink, 1.5–2 cm. Mericarps to 3 mm.
Phenology: Flowering Oct.
Habitat: Stream banks, open chaparral
Elevation: 100–500 m
Distribution
Calif.
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Malacothamnus abbottii was once considered to be extinct. It is known from three localities in southern Monterey County.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"fine" is not a number.