Eremalche exilis

(A. Gray) Greene

Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 208. 1906.

Basionym: Malvastrum exile A. Gray in J. C. Ives, Rep. Colorado R. 4: 8. 1861
Synonyms: Sphaeralcea exilis (A. Gray) Jepson
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 247.

Plants prostrate to decumbent; stems sometimes flushed with purple-maroon, branched or unbranched, 2–40 cm, obscurely stellate-hairy. Leaf-blades 3-cleft or 5-cleft or lobed to ± 1/2 to base, 1–2.5 cm wide, divisions entire or 3-toothed at tip. Inflorescences seldom exceeding leaves, sometimes basal. Pedicels 0.2–1 cm, longer in fruit; involucellar bractlets threadlike to linear, 3.3–5.5 (–7) mm. Flowers: calyx 4–5.5 (–7) mm, lobes 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white or pale rose-lavender, 4–5.5 mm, equaling calyx. Mericarps 9–13, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.4–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated. 2n = 20, 40.


Phenology: Flowering late winter–spring.
Habitat: Sandy or rocky desert soil
Elevation: 100–1500 m

Distribution

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Ariz., Calif., Nev., Utah, Mexico (Baja California), Mexico (Sonora)

Discussion

Eremalche exilis occurs in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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David M. Bates +, Malvastrum A. Gray subsect. Pedunculosa A. Gray in A. Gray et al. +, Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1 +  and 2): 308. 1897 +
(A. Gray) Greene +
truncate +  and cordate +
Malvastrum exile +
palmately +, unlobed +  and reniform-round +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
threadlike +  and linear +
0.33 cm3.3 mm <br />0.0033 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
lobed +  and not inflated +
not accrescent +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
indehiscent +  and loculicidal +
white +  and rose lavender or mauve drying purple or blue +
campanulate +
Ariz. +, Calif. +, Nev. +, Utah +, Mexico (Baja California) +  and Mexico (Sonora) +
3-toothed +  and entire +
reticulate +  and corrugate +
100–1500 m +
sparse;copious +
pistillate +  and staminate +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
Sandy or rocky desert soil +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
5-cleft or lobed +  and 3-cleft +
simple +, stipulate +, sessile +, subsessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
acuminate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br />) +
corrugated +
unarmed +  and 1-celled +
brownish +  and blackish +
cushionlike +  and wedge--shaped +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.18 cm1.8 mm <br />0.0018 m <br />) +
9-36-carpellate +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
pale rose-lavender;white +
adnate +  and distinct +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.55 cm5.5 mm <br />0.0055 m <br />) +
Flowering late winter–spring. +
Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. +
obovoid-reniform +
persistent +
sessile +  and subsessile +
unbranched +  and branched +
flushed with purple-maroon +
prostrate;erect +
stellate-hairy +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
9-36-branched +
Sphaeralcea exilis +
Eremalche exilis +
Eremalche +
species +