Sphaeralcea polychroma

La Duke

SouthW. Naturalist 30: 433, fig. 1. 1985.

Common names: Hot Springs globemallow
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 368. Mentioned on page 359.

Plants perennial. Stems erect, white or yellow, to 10–20 dm, rubbery, densely soft stellate-pubescent. Leaf-blades white or yellow, deltate to lanceolate, subhastate to 3-lobed, 4–7 cm, secondary lobes to 2.2 cm, not rugose, base cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces green to white-canescent. Inflorescences paniculate, open, many-flowered, interrupted, tip leafy; involucellar bractlets green to tan. Flowers: sepals 6–7 mm; petals white, pink, lavender, purple, red-orange, or red, 10–13 mm; anthers yellow. Schizocarps short-urceolate; mericarps 12–14, (3.5–) 4–5.5 × 2–3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 60% of height, with usually reflexed cusps to 2 mm, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part. Seeds 1 or 2 per mericarp, gray, pubescent. 2n =20.


Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Desert lowlands
Elevation: 1900 m

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex., Tex., Mexico (Chihuahua)

Discussion

Sphaeralcea polychroma is frequent in central New Mexico and western Texas. It is closely related to S. procera.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"not wider" is not a number."dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

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acute;truncate;acute;truncate +
John La Duke +
La Duke +
cuneate +
yellow +  and white +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
deltate;lanceolate subhastate +
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 +
Hot Springs globemallow +
0mm +  and 2mm +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +  and Mexico (Chihuahua) +
1900 m +
sparse;copious +
thread-like +
pistillate +  and staminate +
in axillary cymose racemes +  and fascicled +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
Desert lowlands +
interrupted +, many-flowered +  and open +
axillary +  and terminal +
tough-fibrous +
connate +  and distinct +
sessile +  and petiolate +
distichous +  and alternate +
entire +  and serrate +
crenate;dentate +
2-celled +  and 1-celled +
0.35 cm3.5 mm <br />0.0035 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
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 /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
3-40-carpellate +
(1-)2-many +
dehiscent +  and indehiscent +
red;red-orange;red;red-orange;purple;lavender;pink;white +
adnate +  and distinct +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br />) +
Flowering summer. +
SouthW. Naturalist +
short-urceolate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (2.2 cm22 mm <br />0.022 m <br />) +
reniform +
persistent +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
sessile +  and subsessile +
yellow +  and white +
stellate-pubescent +
filiform +, linear +  and capitate +
1-2 times number of carpels +
deciduous +  and persistent +
unbranched +  and branched +
white-canescent +
Mallow +
Sphaeralcea polychroma +
Sphaeralcea +
species +
monoecious +, dioecious +  and hermaphroditic +