Flora of North America species comparison

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Meximalva

meximalva
Habit Subshrubs.
Stems

erect, stellate-tomentose.
Leaves

distichous and alternate;

stipules persistent, linear;

blade narrowly ovate or oblong-lanceolate, unlobed, base cordate, margins serrate, surfaces stellate-hairy.
Inflorescences

axillary, solitary flowers;

involucel absent.
Flowers

calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes unribbed, wide-ovate;

corolla rotate, dark purple [lavender or purple];

staminal column included;

style 7- or 8-branched;

stigmas capitate.
Fruits

schizocarps, erect, sometimes nodding, not inflated, oblate, indurate, puberulent;

mericarps 7 or 8, 1-celled, without dorsal spur, lateral walls persistent, prominently reticulate, partially dehiscent apically between 2 empty, doubled-walled “horns.” Seeds 1 per mericarp, glabrous (subglabrous) or with a few stellate hairs.
x

= 8.

Meximalva
Distribution
from FNA
TX; n Mexico; c Mexico
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

The second species, Meximalva venusta (Schlechtendal) Fryxell, is known only from Mexico.

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 6, p. 302. Authors: Paul A. Fryxell†, Steven R. Hill.
Parent taxa Malvaceae > subfam. Malvoideae
Subordinate taxa
M. filipes
Name authority Fryxell: Bol. Soc. Bot. México 35: 30, fig. 2. (1975)
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