View source for Malacothamnus marrubioides

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|accepted_name=Malacothamnus marrubioides
|accepted_authority=(Durand & Hilgard) Greene
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|place=1: 208. 1906
|year=1906
}}
|common_names=Pink-flowered bushmallow
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malvastrum marrubioides
|authority=Durand & Hilgard
|publication_title=Pl. Heermann.,
|publication_place=38. 1854
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=M. gabrielense
|authority=Munz & I. M. Johnston
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malacothamnus;Malacothamnus marrubioides
|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 marrubioides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 281
|treatment_page=page 284
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs,</b> 1–2 m, branches slender, indument tawny, moderately dense, often viscid, not shaggy, stellate hairs sessile or stalked, not bristly, few–many-armed, glandular hairs usually abundant. <b>Leaf</b> blades broadly ovate or suborbiculate, unlobed or 3- or 5-lobed, 3–6(–8) cm, surfaces: moderately to copiously hairy, hairs grayish to tawny, 10–30-armed, basal sinus open, not overlapping. <b>Inflorescences</b> usually short, interrupted, spicate to racemose, flower clusters sessile or short-pedunculate, glomerate to open, usually leafy; involucellar bractlets filiform, 5–13 × 1 mm, mostly 2/3 to equaling calyx length. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx angled or slightly winged in bud, 7–15 mm, lobes lanceolate, triangular, or ovate, 4.5–12 × 1.7–3(–4) mm, 2–3 times as long as wide, 2–3 times tube length, apex long-acuminate, densely stellate-hairy, hairs many-armed; petals pink, to 2 cm. <b>Mericarps</b> 2–3.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 34.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug).
|habitat=Chaparral, washes, hillsides
|elevation=400–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|discussion=<p><i>Malacothamnus marrubioides</i> is reported from lower elevations of the Sierra <i>Nevada</i>, and is known otherwise from the Transverse Ranges of southern California and Coast Ranges of Baja California.</p>
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name=Malacothamnus marrubioides
|author=
|authority=(Durand & Hilgard) Greene
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=M. gabrielense
|basionyms=Malvastrum marrubioides
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–Jun(–Aug).
|habitat=Chaparral, washes, hillsides
|elevation=400–1100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California).
|reference=None
|publication title=Leafl. Bot. Observ. Crit.
|publication year=1906
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malacothamnus
|species=Malacothamnus marrubioides
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