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|accepted_name=Eremalche
|accepted_authority=Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|place=1: 208. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Desert mallow
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Eremalche
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Eremalche]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek eremia, desert, and alkea, mallow, alluding to habitat
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 219, 247
|treatment_page=page 246
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, sometimes gynodioecious. <b>Stems</b> prostrate to erect, sparsely to densely hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules caducous, subulate; blade reniform-round, unlobed or palmately 3-, 5-, [7-]cleft, base truncate to cordate, margins usually toothed, sometimes entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers in lower axils, congested and ± corymbose at branch tips; involucellar bractlets persistent, 3, distinct. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobed to beyond middle, lobes not ribbed, acuminate; corolla campanulate, white to rose, lavender, or mauve, drying purple or blue; staminal column included; ovary 9–36-carpellate; ovules 1 per carpel; styles 9–36-branched (branches equal in number to carpels); stigmas terminal, capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, oblique, not inflated, depressed-discoid, edge corrugate or reticulate, glabrous; mericarps 9–36, drying black, 1-celled, without spur, ± spheric, unarmed, lateral walls ± disintegrated, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> ascending, 1 per mericarp, black, obovoid-reniform, glabrous. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Species 3 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades unlobed; petals magenta-spotted at base; mericarps 2.8–3.5 mm.
|[[Eremalche rotundifolia|Eremalche rotundifolia]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaves lobed or parted; petals not spotted; mericarps 1.4–1.8 mm
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Flowers bisexual; petals 4–5.5 mm, ± equaling calyx; plants prostrate to decumbent.
|[[Eremalche exilis|Eremalche exilis]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Flowers bisexual or pistillate; petals 5.5–20(–25) mm, equaling or exceeding calyx; plants erect, main stem unbranched or with ascending branches from base.
|[[Eremalche parryi|Eremalche parryi]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Eremalche
|author=David M. Bates;Malvastrum A. Gray subsect. Pedunculosa A. Gray in A. Gray et al.; Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1(1;2): 308. 1897
|authority=Greene
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=sw United States;nw Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|publication year=1906
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_445.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Eremalche
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