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Iliamna remota

Iliamna

Kankakee globe-mallow, Kankakee mallow

globe mallow, wild hollyhock
Habit Subshrubs or perennial herbs, often woody at base, glabrate to densely pubescent, hairs variously stellate to simple.
Stems

1–2.5 m;

herbage densely to sparsely stellate-hairy.

solitary to many, erect or ascending, rarely decumbent.
Leaf

blades (3-), 5-, or 7-lobed, 6–20 cm wide, lobes broadly triangular-ovate, base truncate to cordate, margins crenate-dentate, sinuses broad, obtuse.

Inflorescences

clusters forming interrupted racemes distally;

involucellar bractlets linear, 6–9 × 1 mm, 1/2–2/3 as long as calyx.

Flowers

fragrant;

calyx 12–18 mm, lobes broadly ovate-acuminate, 6–8 mm, ± as wide as long, ± equaling tube;

petals pale rose-purple, 2.5–3 cm.

calyx somewhat accrescent or not, not inflated, lobes not strongly ribbed, lanceolate to ovate or ovate-triangular;

corolla campanulate to subrotate, whitish or pinkish to rose-purple, exceeding calyx;

staminal column ± included;

filaments terminal and subterminal;

ovary (6–)10–15(or 16)-carpellate;

ovules 2 or 3(or 4) per carpel;

styles (6–)10–15(or 16)-branched, (branches equal in number to carpels);

stigmas terminal, obliquely capitate.
Fruits

schizocarps, erect, not inflated, subglobose, apically retuse, moderately indurate;

mericarps (6–)10–15(or 16), drying black, 1-celled, oblong in lateral view, rounded at apex, thin-walled, smooth laterally, without dorsal spur, densely pubescent dorsally and apically with coarse, hirsute, velutinous simple hairs overlaying stellate hairs, sides smooth, glabrous, dehiscence loculicidal except ventral-basally where joined to columella by vascular bundles.
Seeds

2 or 3(or 4), dark brown, 3 mm, densely hairy.

2 or 3(or 4) per mericarp, reniform to obovate-reniform, glabrate or puberulent marginally with simple, white to tawny hairs 1–2 mm.
Schizocarps

15 mm diam.;

mericarps 15, 10 mm.

Distinct

.
x

= 33.
2n

= 66.

Iliamna remota

Iliamna
Phenology Flowering Jun–Aug.
Habitat Open woods and rocky slopes, riverbanks, shores and gravel bars of rivers, abandoned cultivated fields in sandy clay loam
Elevation 100–200 m (300–700 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
IL; IN; VA
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Discussion

Iliamna remota is known from Langham Island opposite Altorf in the Kankakee River (about nine miles northwest of Kankakee, Illinois), where it persists as the only certain wild locality; it now may occasionally escape from cultivation or deliberate introduction, as apparently was the case of a naturalized population found in the 1940s in swale about two miles east of New Paris, Indiana. It was apparently distributed along railroads by enthusiastic wildflower groups in the last century. Iliamna remota is listed as endangered by the state of Illinois.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Iliamna comprises one widespread species of the mountainous West (I. rivularis), and seven local species (two eastern and five western) differing principally but modestly in pubescence, leaf, involucellar bractlet, and calyx characters, and exhibiting varying degrees of intergradation. All, with the exception of I. bakeri, are species of relatively mesic, open woodlands, scrub, and meadows, often along stream banks. Each of the species apparently regenerates following disturbance or fire, sometimes in dense stands.

Species 8 (8 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Involucellar bractlets 8–14 × 2–6 mm, 3/4 to exceeding calyx length
→ 2
1. Involucellar bractlets 3–10 × 1 mm, 1/3–2/3 calyx length
→ 3
2. Involucellar bractlets lanceolate-ovate, 8–12 × 2–3 mm, 3/4 calyx length.
I. grandiflora
2. Involucellar bractlets elliptic-lanceolate to -ovate, 10–14 × 4–6 mm, equaling or exceeding calyx length.
I. latibracteata
3. Calyces at anthesis 5–8(–11) mm; involucellar bractlets 3–6(–8) mm.
I. rivularis
3. Calyces 9–20 mm; involucellar bractlets (5–)6–10 mm
→ 4
4. Calyx lobes ovate to triangular-ovate, ± as wide as long, ± equaling tube in length
→ 5
4. Calyx lobes lanceolate to narrowly ovate, longer than wide, exceeding tube in length
→ 6
5. Leaf blades 6–20 cm wide, (3-)5- or 7-lobed, terminal lobe triangular-ovate, sinuses broad.
I. remota
5. Leaf blades 1.5–8 cm wide, shallowly and crenately 3-lobed or deeply 3- or 5-lobed, terminal lobe narrowly oblong, sinuses narrow.
I. bakeri
6. Calyx 9–12 mm; involucellar bractlets 6–8 mm.
I. corei
6. Calyx 15–20 mm; involucellar bractlets 5–10 mm
→ 7
7. Calyces and stems pubescent with simple and stellate hairs; petals deep rose-purple; plants 1–2 m.
I. longisepala
7. Calyces and stems obscurely pubescent with fine stellate hairs; petals whitish or pinkish; plants 0.5–0.7 m.
I. crandallii
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 270. FNA vol. 6, p. 268. Author: David M. Bates.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Iliamna Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Sibling taxa
I. bakeri, I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. rivularis
Subordinate taxa
I. bakeri, I. corei, I. crandallii, I. grandiflora, I. latibracteata, I. longisepala, I. remota, I. rivularis
Synonyms Phymosia remota, Sphaeralcea remota
Name authority Greene: Leafl. Bot. Obs. Crit. 1: 206. (1906) Greene: Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit. 1: 206. (1906)
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