Characteristics
Dicots
Kosteletzkya pentacarpos (L.)Ledeb.
VIRGINIA SALTMARSH MALLOW
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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).
Native
OBL (NWPL)
OBL (DEP)
Classification
Citation
KOSTELETZKYA PENTACARPOS (Linnaeus) Ledebour, Fl. Ross. 1: 437. 1842.
Hibiscus pentacarpos Linnaeus 1753.
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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