Kosteletzkya pentacarpos / [Species detail] / Plant Atlas

Characteristics

Classification

Dicots

Family

MALVACEAE

Genus

Kosteletzkya

Species

Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (L.)Ledeb.

Common Name

VIRGINIA SALTMARSH MALLOW

Growth Habit

C Value

Plant Notes

Populations in the Americas had been called K. virginica. Now the name K. pentacarpos is used since the American populations seem morphologically indistinguishable from the Eurasian populations (Blanchard 2008). Plants with narrower leaves (< 20 mm wide) with margins entire at the proximal half of the blade and reflexed lobes have been recognized as var. smilacifolia and endemic to peninsular Florida (Alexander et al. 2012), e.g. Jensen OS0563 (USF).

Status

Native OBL (NWPL) OBL (DEP)

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Classification

Supraordinal

Order

MALVALES

Family

MALVACEAE

Genus

Kosteletzkya

Species

Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (L.)Ledeb. - VIRGINIA SALTMARSH MALLOW

Citation

KOSTELETZKYA PENTACARPOS (Linnaeus) Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 1: 437. 1842.

Basionym

Hibiscus pentacarpos Linnaeus 1753.

Type

ITALY: Venice, without dat (lectotype: Zannichelli, Ist. Piant. t. 91. 1735). Lectotypified by S. N. Alexander et al., Castanea 77: 115. 2012. EPITYPE: ITALY: Venice, "Barena di Chioggia", s.d., Without collector s.n. (epitype: PAD). Epitypified by Ferrer-Gallego et al., Novon 24: 241. 2015.

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