Eremalche parryi subsp. kernensis

(C. B. Wolf) D. M. Bates

Phytologia 72: 51. 1992.

Conservation concernEndemic
Basionym: Eremalche kernensis C. B. Wolf Occas. Pap. Rancho Santa Ana Bot. Gard. 2: 66, fig. 18. 1938
Synonyms: Malvastrum kernense (C. B. Wolf) Munz
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 6. Treatment on page 248.

Pedicels usually 1–5 cm in flower; involucellar bractlets (3–)4–7(–10) mm in bisexual flowers, (2.5–)4–6(–8) mm in pistillate flowers. Flowers bisexual or pistillate; petals white or mauve. Bisexual flowers: calyx 5–9(–10) mm, lobes 3.5–7(–8) × 1.7–3(–3.5) mm; petals 8–20(–25) mm, exceeding calyx. Pistillate flowers: calyx 4.5–7.5(–10) mm, lobes 3.2–6.5(–8) × 1.5–2.5(–3.5) mm; petals 5.5–13 mm, ± equaling to slightly exceeding calyx. Mericarps 9–13 in bisexual flowers, 13–19 in pistillate flowers. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering late winter–spring.
Habitat: Eroded hillsides, alkali flats
Elevation: 60–1200 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Subspecies kernensis occurs in the southernmost inner South Coast Ranges and the southern San Joaquin Valley in Kern and San Luis Obispo counties.

Lower Taxa

None.