View source for Malacothamnus fremontii

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|accepted_name=Malacothamnus fremontii
|accepted_authority=(Torrey ex A. Gray) Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. Bot Observ. Crit.
|place=1: 208. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Fremont’s bushmallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malvastrum fremontii
|authority=Torrey ex A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts, n. s.
|publication_place=4: 21. 1849
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malacothamnus fremontii subsp. cercophorus
|authority=(B. L. Robinson) Munz
|rank=subspecies
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|name=M. helleri
|authority=(Eastwood) Kearney
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. howellii
|authority=(Greene) Greene
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. orbiculatus
|authority=Eastwood
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malvastrum fremontii var. cercophorum
|authority=B. L. Robinson
|rank=variety
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|name=M. helleri
|authority=Greene
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. howellii
|authority=(Torrey ex A. Gray) Jepson
|rank=species
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|name=M. orbiculatum
|authority=(Greene) Jepson
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphaeralcea fremontii
|authority=
|rank=species
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|name=S. fremontii var. exfibulosa
|authority=Jepson
|rank=variety
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|name=S. orbiculata
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malacothamnus;Malacothamnus fremontii
|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 fremontii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 282
|treatment_page=page 283
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs </b>or shrubs, 0.5–2(–3) m, branches stout or slender, indument white, sparsely to densely woolly, stellate hairs stalked, 20–30-armed, glandular hairs often abundant. <b>Leaf</b> blades ovate, broadly ovate, suborbiculate, or reniform, 3- or 5-lobed, 4–6(–11) cm, thin or thick, surfaces: adaxial white, densely velvety-tomentose or green, sparsely hairy, basal sinus open, not overlapping. <b>Inflorescences</b> interrupted, spicate or narrow- or, rarely, open-paniculate, flower clusters sessile or pedunculate, 6–10-flowered; involucellar bractlets subulate to filiform, 3–12(–15) × to 0.5 mm, 1/3–1 1/3 times calyx length. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx campanulate, 5.5–13 mm, lobes usually narrowly triangular, 3–10 × 1–4 mm, ca. 2–3 times as long as wide, ± equaling to 3 times tube length, apex acute or short-acuminate, densely white-lanate; petals pale pink, to 1.8 cm. <b>Mericarps</b> 2.5–4 mm. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Chaparral, lower margins of pine woodlands
|elevation=50–2800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Malacothamnus fremontii</i> occurs about the Central Valley in the inner Coast Ranges, Sierra <i>Nevada</i>, and Transverse Ranges. In the northern Coast Ranges, plants with calyx measurements in the lower range have been recognized as M. helleri or <i>Sphaeralcea</i> fremontii var. exfibulosa; plants with a more southerly distribution and measurements in the upper range have been called <i>M. howellii</i> or <i>M. fremontii</i> subsp. cercophorus; these forms occur elsewhere in the range of <i>M. fremontii</i>. In the Transverse Ranges, plants are generally less woolly (M. orbiculatus) and may intergrade with <i>M. fasciculatus</i>.</p>
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name=Malacothamnus fremontii
|authority=(Torrey ex A. Gray) Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malacothamnus fremontii subsp. cercophorus;M. helleri;M. howellii;M. orbiculatus;Malvastrum fremontii var. cercophorum;M. helleri;M. howellii;M. orbiculatum;Sphaeralcea fremontii;S. fremontii var. exfibulosa;S. orbiculata
|basionyms=Malvastrum fremontii
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Chaparral, lower margins of pine woodlands
|elevation=50–2800 m
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. Bot Observ. Crit.
|publication year=1906
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_515.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malacothamnus
|species=Malacothamnus fremontii
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