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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Eremalche exilis
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|place=1: 208. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malvastrum exile
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=in J. C. Ives, Rep. Colorado R.
|publication_place=4: 8. 1861
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphaeralcea exilis
|authority=(A. Gray) Jepson
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Eremalche;Eremalche exilis
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Eremalche exilis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 247
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>prostrate to decumbent; stems sometimes flushed with purple-maroon, branched or unbranched, 2–40 cm, obscurely stellate-hairy. <b>Leaf</b> blades 3- or 5-cleft or -lobed to ± 1/2 to base, 1–2.5 cm wide, divisions entire or 3-toothed at tip. <b>Inflorescences</b> seldom exceeding leaves, sometimes basal. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.2–1 cm, longer in fruit; involucellar bractlets threadlike to linear, 3.3–5.5(–7) mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 4–5.5(–7) mm, lobes 3–5 × 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white or pale rose-lavender, 4–5.5 mm, equaling calyx. <b>Mericarps</b> 9–13, brownish to blackish, ± wedge-shaped, cushionlike, 1.4–1.8 mm, margins rounded, radially corrugated. <b>2n</b> = 20, 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Sandy or rocky desert soil
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|discussion=<p><i>Eremalche exilis</i> occurs in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Eremalche exilis
|authority=(A. Gray) Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Sphaeralcea exilis
|basionyms=Malvastrum exile
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering late winter–spring.
|habitat=Sandy or rocky desert soil
|elevation=100–1500 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Calif.;Nev.;Utah;Mexico (Baja California;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|publication year=1906
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Eremalche
|species=Eremalche exilis
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