Sphaeralcea fendleri

A. Gray

Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 21. 1852.

Common names: Fendler’s globemallow
Illustrated
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 363. Mentioned on page 359.

Plants perennial. Stems erect or ascending, usually gray to gray-green or green, sometimes purple to black, (2–) 4–7 (–10) dm, sparsely to densely canescent or hirsute. Leaf-blades green or gray to gray-green, lanceolate to triangular, shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, (1.5–) 3–7 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces hirsute or sparsely to densely stellate soft-pubescent. Inflorescences paniculate, narrow, usually crowded, tip leafy or not; involucellar bractlets green to tan. Flowers: sepals 4.5–6 (–9) mm; petals red-orange or lavender, 8–13 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps cylindric to conic; mericarps 9–16, 4–5.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 70–80% of height, tip reflexed and cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides faintly, very finely reticulate, tips reflexed. Seeds 2 per mericarp, black, pubescent.

Distribution

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Ariz., Colo., Kans., N.Mex., n Mexico

Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Leaf blade surfaces distinctly hirsute Sphaeralcea fendleri var. venusta
1 Leaf blade surfaces soft-pubescent or sparsely pubescent > 2
2 Leaf blade surfaces sparsely pubescent, appearing green; petals red-orange. Sphaeralcea fendleri var. fendleri
2 Leaf blade surfaces densely soft white-pubescent; petals usually lavender. Sphaeralcea fendleri var. albescens

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... more about "Sphaeralcea fendleri"
acute;truncate;acute;truncate +
John La Duke +
A. Gray +
truncate +  and cuneate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
gray +  and gray-green +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
lanceolate;triangular +
asymmetric +  and symmetric +
ovate +  and triangular trullate or cordate unlobed or pedately dissected +
truncate-spheric +, helmet--shaped +, short-urceolate +, ellipsoid +, truncate-ovoid +, spheric +, truncate-conic +, conic +, hemispheric +, flattened-spheric-conic +, flattened-spheric +, ovoid +, cylindric +  and inflated +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
Fendler’s globemallow +
Ariz. +, Colo. +, Kans. +, N.Mex. +  and n Mexico +
sparse;copious +
thread-like +
pistillate +  and staminate +
in axillary cymose racemes +  and fascicled +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
crowded +  and paniculate +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
sessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
entire +  and serrate +
crenate;dentate +
2-celled +  and 1-celled +
tan +  and brown +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
wedge--shaped +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
3-40-carpellate +
(1-)2-many +
dehiscent +  and indehiscent +
lavender;red-orange +
adnate +  and distinct +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. +
cylindric +  and conic +
reniform +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
persistent +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
Illustrated +
sessile +  and subsessile +
purple +  and black +
ascending;erect +
hirsute +  and canescent +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
deciduous +  and persistent +
unbranched +  and branched +
hirsute or +  and sparsely densely stellate soft-pubescent +
Mallow +
Sphaeralcea fendleri +
Sphaeralcea +
species +
not +  and leafy +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +