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|accepted_name=Malacothamnus jonesii
|accepted_authority=(Munz) Kearney
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|place=6: 135. 1951
|year=1951
}}
|common_names=San Luis Obispo or Jones’s bushmallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malvastrum jonesii
|authority=Munz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci.
|publication_place=24: 88. 1925
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malacothamnus gracilis
|authority=(Eastwood) Kearney
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. niveus
|authority=(Eastwood) Kearney
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malvastrum fremontii var. niveum
|authority=(Eastwood) McMinn
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. gracile
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. niveum
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malacothamnus;Malacothamnus jonesii
|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>[[Malacothamnus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malacothamnus jonesii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 282
|treatment_page=page 284
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> 1–2.5 m, branches slender, flexuous, indument white, usually velvety, not shaggy, stellate hairs stalked, sometimes sublepidote, ca. 10–30-armed, glandular hairs often abundant. <b>Leaf</b> blades ash green, ovate, ± rhombic, or suborbiculate, unlobed or 3- or 5-lobed, 2.5–4.5(–7) cm, thin to thick, surfaces: soft tomentose-white, adaxial pale ash green, white-velvety, basal sinus open, not overlapping. <b>Inflorescences</b> open-paniculate or subracemose, flower clusters pedunculate, loose, 3(–6)-flowered, or solitary flowers; involucellar bractlets awl-shaped to filiform, 2.5–7(–8) × 1 mm, 1/3–1/2(–2/3) calyx length. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx campanulate, not angled in bud, 5–9(–10) mm, lobes distinct in bud, narrowly triangular or deltate-lanceolate, 3–6(–7.5) × 1.5–3(–4) mm, length 2 times width, equaling to 3 times tube length, apex acute to short-acuminate, usually sublepidote to tomentose, hairs 10–30-armed, sometimes densely lanate; petals pale pink, to 1 cm. <b>Mericarps</b> 2.5–3.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Open chaparral, foothill woodlands
|elevation=200–900 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Malacothamnus jonesii</i> is known from the central Coast Ranges.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malacothamnus jonesii
|authority=(Munz) Kearney
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malacothamnus gracilis;M. niveus;Malvastrum fremontii var. niveum;M. gracile;M. niveum
|basionyms=Malvastrum jonesii
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering late Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Open chaparral, foothill woodlands
|elevation=200–900 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. W. Bot.
|publication year=1951
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_516.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malacothamnus
|species=Malacothamnus jonesii
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