View source for Sphaeralcea leptophylla

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|accepted_name=Sphaeralcea leptophylla
|accepted_authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=40: 59. 1913
|year=1913
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malvastrum leptophyllum
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|publication_title=Smithsonian Contr. Knowl.
|publication_place=3(5): 17. 1852
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Malveopsis leptophylla
|authority=(A. Gray) Kuntze
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Sphaeralcea janeae
|authority=(S. L. Welsh) S. L. Welsh
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=S. leptophylla var. janeae
|authority=S. L. Welsh
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Sphaeralcea;Sphaeralcea leptophylla
|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>[[Sphaeralcea]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Sphaeralcea leptophylla]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 357
|treatment_page=page 366
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial. <b>Stems</b> ascending, white to silvery, 1–4(–6) dm, silvery stellate-lepidote. <b>Leaf</b> blades white to silvery, linear to triangular, mostly unlobed, proximalmost blades 3-parted, rarely with nonfiliform lobes, 1–3.5 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cuneate, margins entire, surfaces silvery stellate-lepidote. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemose, lax, open, 3–12-flowered, tip not leafy; involucellar bractlets silvery-lepidote. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 4.5–5.5(–7) mm; petals red-orange, 8–15 mm; anthers yellow. <b>Schizocarps</b> flattened-spheric to conic; mericarps 7–9, 2.5–3.5 × 2–3 mm, thick-coriaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 20–40% of height, tip muticous-mucronulate, indehiscent part usually wider than dehiscent part, sides coarsely reticulate. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, brown, usually glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 20.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry rocky areas
|elevation=1500–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico (Chihuahua;Sonora).
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name=Sphaeralcea leptophylla
|authority=(A. Gray) Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Malveopsis leptophylla;Sphaeralcea janeae;S. leptophylla var. janeae
|basionyms=Malvastrum leptophyllum
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–summer.
|habitat=Dry rocky areas
|elevation=1500–1800 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Utah;Mexico (Chihuahua;Sonora).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1913
|special status=
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Sphaeralcea
|species=Sphaeralcea leptophylla
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