Flora of North America species comparison

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Sphaeralcea fendleri

Fendler's globemallow, thicket globe-mallow
Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

erect or ascending, usually gray to gray-green or green, sometimes purple to black, (2–)4–7(–10) dm, sparsely to densely canescent or hirsute.
Leaf

blades green or gray to gray-green, lanceolate to triangular, shallowly to deeply 3-lobed, (1.5–)3–7 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins crenate to dentate, surfaces hirsute or sparsely to densely stellate soft-pubescent.
Inflorescences

paniculate, narrow, usually crowded, tip leafy or not;

involucellar bractlets green to tan.
Flowers

sepals 4.5–6(–9) mm;

petals red-orange or lavender, 8–13 mm;

anthers yellow.
Seeds

2 per mericarp, black, pubescent.
Schizocarps

cylindric to conic;

mericarps 9–16, 4–5.5 × 2–2.5 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 70–80% of height, tip reflexed and cuspidate, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides faintly, very finely reticulate, tips reflexed.

Sphaeralcea fendleri
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; KS; NM; n Mexico
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Discussion

Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaf blade surfaces distinctly hirsute
var. venusta
1. Leaf blade surfaces soft-pubescent or sparsely pubescent
→ 2
2. Leaf blade surfaces sparsely pubescent, appearing green; petals red-orange.
var. fendleri
2. Leaf blade surfaces densely soft white-pubescent; petals usually lavender.
var. albescens
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 363.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea
Sibling taxa
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. emoryi, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. leptophylla, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, S. orcuttii, S. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
Subordinate taxa
S. fendleri var. albescens, S. fendleri var. fendleri, S. fendleri var. venusta
Name authority A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 21. (1852)
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