Sphaeralcea fumariensis

(S. L. Welsh & N. D. Atwood) N. D. Atwood & S. L. Welsh

Novon 12: 160. 2002.

Common names: Smoky Mountain globemallow
Endemic
Basionym: Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia var. fumariensis S. L. Welsh & N. D. Atwood Rhodora 103: 82, fig. 4. 2001
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 364. Mentioned on page 359, 365.

Plants perennial. Stems ascending, gray-green, red-purple basally, 2–5.5 dm, pubescent. Leaf-blades gray-green, cordate, pedately divided with usually 5 main lobes, 1–4.5 cm, not rugose, base cordate to truncate, margins entire, surfaces densely stellate-pubescent. Inflorescences paniculate, crowded, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets reddish. Flowers: sepals 7.5–12 mm; petals red-orange, 12–17 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps hemispheric; mericarps 10–14, 3–4 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 50–65% of height, tip rounded, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides reticulate. Seeds 1 (or 2) per mericarp, brown to black, glabrous or stellate-pubescent.


Phenology: Flowering May–Jun.
Habitat: Alluvium of mudstone, shale, and sandstone formations
Elevation: 1300–1700 m

Discussion

Sphaeralcea fumariensis is similar to S. moorei but is notably gray-green pubescent in contrast to the less pubescent and green S. moorei. See 11. S. grossulariifolia for discussion. Sphaeralcea fumariensis is known from Kane County.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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acute;truncate;acute;truncate +
John La Duke +
(S. L. Welsh & N. D. Atwood) N. D. Atwood & S. L. Welsh +
cordate to truncate +
Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia var. fumariensis +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br />) +
divided;cordate +
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 +
Smoky Mountain globemallow +
1300–1700 m +
sparse;copious +
thread-like +
pistillate +  and staminate +
in axillary cymose racemes +  and fascicled +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
Alluvium of mudstone, shale, and sandstone formations +
crowded +  and paniculate +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
sessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
crenate;serrate +
2-celled +  and 1-celled +
tan +  and brown +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
wedge--shaped +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
3-40-carpellate +
(1-)2-many +
dehiscent +  and indehiscent +
adnate +  and distinct +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
Flowering May–Jun. +
hemispheric +
brown +  and black +
stellate-pubescent +  and glabrous +
reniform +
persistent +
0.75 cm7.5 mm <br />0.0075 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
sessile +  and subsessile +
gray-green +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
deciduous +  and persistent +
unbranched +  and branched +
stellate-pubescent +
Mallow +
Sphaeralcea fumariensis +
Sphaeralcea +
species +
rounded +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +