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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Sphaeralcea laxa
|accepted_authority=Wooton & Standley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=36: 108. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Caliche globemallow
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphaeralcea incana var. dissecta
|authority=A. Gray
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. ribifolia
|authority=Wooton & Standley
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Sphaeralcea;Sphaeralcea laxa
|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>[[Sphaeralcea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphaeralcea laxa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 358, 363
|treatment_page=page 366
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Stems</b> ascending, (2–)4–7(–9) dm, densely gray- or white-tomentose. <b>Leaf</b> blades gray or white, broadly ovate-deltate, 3-lobed or 3- or 5-parted, (1–)1.5–5 cm, not rugose, base typically distinctly truncate (to cordate), margins crenate, surfaces stellate-pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, open, few-flowered, individual flowers widely spaced, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets red to purple. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 7–11 mm; petals red-orange, 12–18 mm; anthers usually purple. <b>Schizocarps</b> truncate-ovoid; mericarps 11–16, 4–6 × 2–3 mm, thin-walled, papery, nonreticulate dehiscent part 55–65% of height, tip acute-cuspidate, cusp 1 mm, indehiscent part not wider than dehiscent part, sides prominently, finely reticulate with ± transparent areolae. <b>Seeds</b> 2 or 3 per mericarp, gray, pubescent. <b>2n</b> = 10, 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Rock outcrops and caliche
|elevation=600–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Sonora).
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|references=
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name=Sphaeralcea laxa
|author=
|authority=Wooton & Standley
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sphaeralcea incana var. dissecta;S. ribifolia
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering early spring–late fall.
|habitat=Rock outcrops and caliche
|elevation=600–1900 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico (Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1909
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Sphaeralcea
|species=Sphaeralcea laxa
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