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Eremalche parryi

Parry's mallow
Habit Plants erect, main stem unbranched or with ascending branches from base, 2–50 cm, densely hairy distally, hairs stellate, 1–3-armed, arms to 2 mm.
Leaf

blades 3-cleft to beyond middle, usually 2–5 cm wide, divisions toothed to subcleft distally.
Inflorescences

usually exceeding leaves.
Pedicels

mostly 1–8 cm, longer in fruit;

involucellar bractlets linear, (2.5–)4–10(–15) mm.
Flowers

bisexual or pistillate;

calyx 4.5–13 mm, lobes 3.2–11 × 1.5–4 mm;

petals white or pale to deep mauve, 5.5–20(–25) mm, equaling or exceeding calyx.
Mericarps

9–22, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.5–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated.

Eremalche parryi
Distribution
from FNA
CA
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Flowers bisexual; petals mauve; calyx 10–14 mm, lobes 2.5–4 mm wide.
subsp. parryi
1. Flowers bisexual or pistillate; petals white or mauve, (proportionally smaller and carpels more numerous in female flowers); calyx 4.5–9(–10) mm, lobes 1.5–3(–3.5) mm wide.
subsp. kernensis
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 247.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Eremalche
Sibling taxa
E. exilis, E. rotundifolia
Subordinate taxa
E. parryi subsp. kernensis, E. parryi subsp. parryi
Synonyms Malvastrum parryi, Sphaeralcea parryi
Name authority (Greene) Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 208. (1906)
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