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Malacothamnus mendocinensis

Malacothamnus mendocinensis (Eastw.) Kearney

Mendocino Bush Mallow, Mendocino Bush-mallow

Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

Synonym(s): Malvastrum mendocinense

USDA Symbol: MAME2

USDA Native Status: L48 (N)

"Plant woody below, up to 2 m. high; stems erect, rather stout, striate-angulate, very closely short-pubescent (sublepidote); leaves short-petioled, the blades up to 5 cm. long and wide, ovate to suborbicular, shallowly to rather deeply and somewhat angulately 3-5-lobed, shallowly crenate, rounded at apex, cordate (often deeply so) at base, thickish, copiously and minutely stellate-pubescent on both surfaces; inflorescences elongate, leafy at least below, narrowly paniculate, the short, loosely flowered branchlets stiffly ascending, the flowers mostly short-pedicelled; bractlets barely 1/4 as long as the calyx, subulate, thickish; calyx 5-6 mm. long, somewhat angulate in bud, densely sublepidote with extremely short, many-armed hairs, the broadly deltoid, acutish lobes equaling or somewhat shorter than the tube; petals 10-12 mm. long; carpels about 2.2 mm. high and very nearly as wide, not stalked, barely incised." (Reslit: 3180).

A very rare species.