Flora of North America species comparison

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Sphaeralcea leptophylla

scaly globemallow
Habit Plants perennial.
Stems

ascending, white to silvery, 1–4(–6) dm, silvery stellate-lepidote.
Leaf

blades white to silvery, linear to triangular, mostly unlobed, proximalmost blades 3-parted, rarely with nonfiliform lobes, 1–3.5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins entire, surfaces silvery stellate-lepidote.
Inflorescences

racemose, lax, open, 3–12-flowered, tip not leafy;

involucellar bractlets silvery-lepidote.
Flowers

sepals 4.5–5.5(–7) mm;

petals red-orange, 8–15 mm;

anthers yellow.
Seeds

1 per mericarp, brown, usually glabrous.
Schizocarps

flattened-spheric to conic;

mericarps 7–9, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm, thick-coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 20–40% of height, tip muticous-mucronulate, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part, sides coarsely reticulate.
2n

= 20.

Sphaeralcea leptophylla
Phenology Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat Dry rocky areas
Elevation 1500–1800 m (4900–5900 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; NV; TX; UT; Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 6, p. 366.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Sphaeralcea
Sibling taxa
S. ambigua, S. angustifolia, S. caespitosa, S. coccinea, S. coulteri, S. digitata, S. emoryi, S. fendleri, S. fumariensis, S. gierischii, S. grossulariifolia, S. hastulata, S. incana, S. laxa, S. lindheimeri, S. moorei, S. munroana, S. orcuttii, S. parvifolia, S. pedatifida, S. polychroma, S. procera, S. psoraloides, S. rusbyi, S. wrightii
Synonyms Malvastrum leptophyllum, Malveopsis leptophylla, S. janeae, S. leptophylla var. janeae
Name authority (A. Gray) Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 40: 59. (1913)
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