Flora of North America species comparison

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Cienfuegosia

flymallow
Habit Herbs or subshrubs [shrubs], perennial.
Stems

decumbent or ascending to erect, glabrous or hairy, not viscid.
Leaves

stipules persistent, subulate or lanceolate [foliaceous];

blade narrowly oblong-lanceolate or ovate to elliptic, unlobed [lobed], margins entire or serrate.
Fruits

capsules, erect, not inflated, ovoid, papery, glabrous or hairy.
Seeds

2–5 per locule, hairy.
Or

rotate, yellow, with or without dark center;

staminal column included;

ovary 3–5-carpellate;

style usually connate to apex;

stigmas connate, 3–5-lobed, clavate [capitate].
x

= 10.

Cienfuegosia
Distribution
from USDA
sc United States; se United States; Mexico; Central America; West Indies; South America (to Argentina); sw Asia (Arabian Peninsula); Africa
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 26 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Key
1. Leaf blades ovate to elliptic, length ca. 1.5 times width, margins coarsely serrate; corolla 1.5–3.5 cm, campanulate, usually dark red proximally; involucellar bracts 6–14 mm, lanceolate to spatulate; stigmas 4 or 5, dark red; capsules 8–14 mm, 4 or 5-locular, glabrous on internal suture.
C. drummondii
1. Leaf blades narrowly oblong-lanceolate, length 4–10 times width, margins entire; corolla 1–2 cm, rotate, not dark proximally; involucellar bracts 0.5–2 mm, subulate; stigmas 3, pallid; capsules 6–8 mm, 3-locular, copiously ciliate on internal suture.
C. yucatanensis
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 245. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
C. drummondii, C. yucatanensis
Name authority Cavanilles: Diss. 2[app.]: [vi]. (1786)
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