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|accepted_name=Kosteletzkya depressa
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) O. J. Blanchard
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gentes Herbarum
|place=11: 357. 1978
|year=1978
}}
|common_names=Stinging mallow;white fen-rose
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Selected by author to be illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Melochia depressa
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 674 (as 774). 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Kosteletzkya pentasperma
|authority=Grisebach
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Kosteletzkya;Kosteletzkya depressa
|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>[[Kosteletzkya]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Kosteletzkya depressa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 273
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>often multistemmed, from fibrous-thickened root crown, 1–2 m, herbage variously hispid or scabrid, hairs stellate or simple. <b>Stems</b> sparingly to freely branched. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules linear-subulate, 2.5–6 mm; petiole of lower leaves 1/4–2/3 times blade; blade narrowly ovate to transversely ovate, sometimes palmately, hastately, or sagittately 3(–5)-lobed, 3–8 × 1.5–6.5 cm, margins irregularly serrate to crenate, apex broadly acute to acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> solitary flowers in axils of distal leaves or leafy, open panicles. <b>Pedicels</b> exceeding petioles, sometimes blades; involucellar bractlets 6–7, linear to subulate, 2–3 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx divided for 2/3–4/5+ its length, campanulate to rotate, 3.2–6 mm; corolla rotate, petals usually white, usually with yellow base, sometimes with pink blush, sometimes drying yellowish, asymmetrically ovate to orbiculate, 5–14 × 5–10 mm; staminal column straight or declinate, yellow, 4–10 mm, bearing filaments mostly in distal 1/2–2/3; filaments 1.5 mm; anthers subsessile, yellow; pollen yellow; styles white or pink, 1.5–2 mm; stigmas pink. <b>Capsules</b> olivaceous to brown, 8–11 mm diam., valve margins angulate or subangulate in outline, variously short-hairy, with prominent curved or hooked, simple hairs on sutures. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 2.5–2.8 mm, minutely hairy. <b>2n</b> = 38 (Mexico, as K. pentasperma).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering fall.
|habitat=Freshwater and brackish marshes near coast
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Colombia;Ecuador;Peru;Venezuela).
|discussion=<p><i>Kosteletzkya depressa</i> is variable and barely enters the flora area. The southern Texas plants conform more to Mexican populations in characters of leaves, fruits, and seeds; in the same characters, the southern Florida plants show affinity with populations of the Greater Antilles.</p><!--
--><p>An earlier chromosome count of 2n = 34 for <i>Kosteletzkya depressa</i> (A. Skovsted 1941) has been shown to be incorrect (O. J. Blanchard 1974).</p><!--
--><p>Plants of <i>Kosteletzkya depressa</i> are said to have stinging or irritating hairs.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Kosteletzkya depressa
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) O. J. Blanchard
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Kosteletzkya pentasperma
|basionyms=Melochia depressa
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering fall.
|habitat=Freshwater and brackish marshes near coast
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Colombia;Ecuador;Peru;Venezuela).
|reference=None
|publication title=Gentes Herbarum
|publication year=1978
|special status=Selected by author to be illustrated
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_498.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Kosteletzkya
|species=Kosteletzkya depressa
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