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big feltplant, pink velvet-mallow

Habit Shrubs, 1–2.5(–4) m, hairs dense, stellate, grayish yellow, rough.
Leaves

often folded, to 68 mm, petiolate to 8 cm to sessile distally;

stipules 2–5 mm;

blade ovate to triangular, 1–11.5 cm, base cordate, margins crenate or dentate to denticulate, apex acuminate.

Inflorescences

solitary flowers, rarely in groups of 3–5.

Flowers

calyx campanulate, 3–10 mm;

petals rose, pink, or pale lavender, 12–21 mm.

Seeds

1 per mericarp, brown to blackish, 1.9 mm, minutely scabridulous.

Schizocarps

8–12 mm diam.;

mericarps 9 or 10, 6–10 mm, sparsely stellate-hairy, lower cell reticulate, upper cell with 2 abortive ovules (rarely developing), wings lanceolate.

2n

= 30.

Horsfordia alata

Phenology Flowering Sep–Apr.
Habitat Disturbed and undisturbed sites, deserts
Elevation 0–600 m (0–2000 ft)
Distribution
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AZ; CA; Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sonora)
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Source FNA vol. 6, p. 268.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae > Horsfordia
Sibling taxa
H. newberryi
Synonyms Sida alata, H. palmeri
Name authority (S. Watson) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 22: 297. (1887)
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