Interesting Facts
Common Names
Common Names in English:
Owens Valley Sidalcea, Owen's Valley Checkerbloom
Description
Family Malvaceae
Herbs, shrubs
, or less often trees
; indumentum usually with peltate scales
or stellate
hairs
. Leaves alternate, stipulate
, petiolate
; leaf blade
usually palmately veined, entire or various lobed
. Flowers solitary, less often in small cymes or clusters
, axillary
or subterminal
, often aggregated into terminal
racemes
or panicles, usually conspicuous
, actinomorphic
, usually bisexual
(unisexual
in Kydia) . Epicalyx
often present, forming an involucre around calyx, 3- to many lobed. Sepals 5, valvate
, free
or connate
. Petals 5, free, contorted, or imbricate, basally adnate
to base
of filament
tube
. Stamens usually very many, filaments connate into tube; anthers
1-celled. Pollen spiny
. Ovary superior, with 2-25 carpels, often separating from one another and from axis; ovules 1 to many per locule; style as many or 2 × as many as pistils, apex branched or capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule or a schizocarp, separating into individual mericarps, rarely berrylike when mature
(Malvaviscus) ; carpels sometimes with an endoglossum (a crosswise projection from back wall of carpel to make it almost completely septate
. Seeds often reniform
, glabrous
or hairy
, sometimes conspicuously so.
About 100 genera and ca.
1000 species: tropical
and temperate regions
of N and S Hemisphere; 19 genera (four introduced
) and 81 species (24 endemic, 16 introduced) in China.
Molecular studies have shown that the members
of the Bombacaceae, Malvaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae form a very well-defined monophyletic group that is divided
into ten also rather well-defined clades, only two of which correspond to the traditional families Bombacaceae and Malvaceae. Some of the remaining groups are included
entirely within either of the remaining families but others cut
across the traditional divide between the Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. A majority of authors
, most notably Bayer and Kubitzki (Fam. Gen. Vasc. Pl. 5: 225-311. 2003), has favored including everything within a greatly enlarged Malvaceae, and treating the individual clades as subfamilies. The alternative view
is that the individual clades should be treated as a series of ten families: Bombacaceae (Bombacoideae), Brownlowiaceae (Brownlowioideae), Byttneriaceae (Byttnerioideae), Durionaceae (Durionoideae), Helicteraceae (Helicteroideae), Malvaceae (Malvoideae), Pentapetaceae (Dombeyoideae), Sparrmanniaceae (Grewioideae), Sterculiaceae (Sterculioideae), and Tiliaceae (Tilioideae) (Cheek in Heywood et al.
, Fl.
Pl. Fam. World. 201-202. 2007) . For the present treatment, we prefer to retain the familiar, traditional four families, so as to maintain continuity
with the treatments in FRPS, and to await a consensus on the two alternative strategies for dealing with the very widely accepted clades.
The traditional Malvaceae coincides exactly with one of the major clades. The only possible problem is the relationship
with the Bombacaceae, which also has primarily 1-loculed anthers, and some authorities have suggested that the Bombacaceae should be included within the Malvaceae.
Members of the Malvaceae are important as fiber crops
(particularly cotton, Gossypium) . Young leaves of many species can be used as vegetables, and species of Abelmoschus and Hibiscus are grown as minor food crops. Many species have attractive flowers and an ever-increasing selection is grown as ornamentals
. Several have been cultivated for a very long time, particularly species of Hibiscus, and some of these are not known in the wild.[1]
Physical Description
Habit: Forb/herb
Biology
Reproduction
Duration: Perennial
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Spermatopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Class:
Spermatopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Synonyms
Sidalcea neomexicana var. covillei (Greene) Roush
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000
Similar Species
Members of the genus Sidalcea
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 83 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. calycosa (Annual Checkerbloom) · S. calycosa rhizomata (Pt. Reyes Checkerbloom) · S. campestris (Meadow Checkerbloom) · S. candida (Checker Mallow) · S. candida var. candida (White Checkerbloom) · S. candida var. glabrata (White Checkermallow) · S. candida 'Bianca' (Checker Mallow) · S. candida 'Oberon' (Checkerbloom) · S. covillei (Owens Valley Sidalcea) · S. cusickii (Cusick's Checkerbloom) · S. diploscypha (Fringed Checkerbloom) · S. glaucescens (Waxy Checkerbloom) · S. hartwegii (Valley Checkerbloom) · S. hendersonii (Henderson's Checkerbloom) · S. hickmanii (Chaparral Checkerbloom) · S. hickmanii parishii (Parish's Checker) · S. hickmanii subsp. anomala (Cuesta Pass Checker) · S. hickmanii subsp. parishii (Parish's Checker) · S. hickmanii subsp. viridis (Marin Checkerbloom) · S. hirsuta (Hairy Checkerbloom) · S. hirtipes (Bristlystem Checkerbloom) · S. hybrida'Stark's Variety' (Miniature Hollyhock) · S. keckii (Keck's Checkerbloom) · S. malvaeflora (Checker Bloom) · S. malviflora (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora asprella (Mapleleaf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora californica (California Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora celata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora elegans (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora nana (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora patula (Siskiyou Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora purpurea (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora rostrata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. hirsuta (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. laciniata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. sancta (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. sparsifolia (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. stellata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora var. uliginosa (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. asprella (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. californica (California Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. celata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora 'Crimson Beauty' (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora subsp. dolosa (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. elegans (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora 'Elsie Heugh' (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora subsp. laciniata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora 'Little Princess' (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora subsp. nana (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora'Party Girl' (Party Girl Miniature Hollyhock) · S. malviflora subsp. patula (Siskiyou Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. purpurea (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora 'Rosaly' (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora 'Rosanna' (Checker Mallow) · S. malviflora subsp. rostrata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. sparsifolia (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. malviflora subsp. virgata (Dwarf Checkerbloom) · S. multifida (Cutleaf Checkerbloom) · S. nelsoniana (Nelson's Checker-Mallow) · S. neomexicana (New Mexico Checkermallow) · S. neomexicana subsp. crenulata (Salt Spring Checkerbloom) · S. neomexicana subsp. thurberi (Rocky Mountain Checker-Mallow) · S. oregana (Edgewood Checkermallow) · S. oregana hydrophila (Oregon Checkerbloom) · S. oregana oregana (Kenwood Marsh Checker-Mallow) · S. oregana spicata (Oregon Checkerbloom) · S. oregana var. maxima (Kenwood Marsh Checker-Mallow) · S. oregana var. nevadensis (Kenwood Marsh Checker-Mallow) · S. oregana var. procera (Kenwood Marsh Checker-Mallow) · S. oregana 'Brilliant' (Oregon Checkerbloom) · S. oregana subsp. eximia (Coast Checkerbloom) · S. oregana subsp. hydrophila (Oregon Checkerbloom) · S. oregana subsp. spicata (Oregon Checkermallow) · S. oregana subsp. valida (Kenwood Marsh Checker-Mallow) · S. parishii (Parish's Checker) · S. pedata (Birdfoot Checkerbloom) · S. ranunculacea (Marsh Checkerbloom) · S. reptans (Sierra Checkerbloom) · S. robusta (Butte County Checkerbloom) · S. stipularis (Scadden Flat Checkerbloom) · S. x 'Little Princess' (Little Princess Miniature Hollyhock) · S. 'Candy Girl' (Checker Mallow) · S. 'Party Girl' (Checker Mallow)
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Further Reading
- 1997 IUCN red list of threatened plants Cambridge: IUCN, World Conservation Union, 1998 url p. 395.
- World Plant Conservation Bibliography WCMC, Royal Botanic Gardens url p. 492, p. 524, p. 630.
- Feng Kuo-mei. 1984. Malvaceae. In: Feng Kuo-mei, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 49(2): 1-102.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:
- Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
- USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2647830
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-21860
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 21860
- U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: SINEC3
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 62985
Footnotes
- Ya Tang, Michael G. Gilbert & Laurence J. Dorr "Malvaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 12 Page 240, 264,299, 302. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
