Eremalche rotundifolia
Eremalche parryi
desert five-spot
Parry's mallow
blades unlobed, 1.5–6 cm, margins crenate-dentate.
blades 3-cleft to beyond middle, usually 2–5 cm wide, divisions toothed to subcleft distally.
usually exceeding leaves.
usually exceeding leaves.
1.5–8 cm;
involucellar bractlets filiform, 6–10 mm.
mostly 1–8 cm, longer in fruit;
involucellar bractlets linear, (2.5–)4–10(–15) mm.
calyx 9–14 mm, lobes 5.5–11 × 3.5–7 mm;
petals rose-pink to lilac, magenta-spotted at base, (15–)20–30 mm, exceeding calyx.
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.
25–36, black, waferlike edges acute, reticulate, 2.8–3.5 mm.
9–22, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.5–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated.
= 20.
Eremalche rotundifolia
Eremalche parryi
Eremalche rotundifolia is morphologically and perhaps generically distinct from the other species of Eremalche; it occurs widely in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts and in Death Valley.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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 |
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