Re: Mystery scrub/plant 4.

In message <M6ZEmnsarQCHFwUf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Stewart Robert Hinsley 
<{$news$}@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>In message <1191720276.599352.7750@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, 
>"cinquefoil_5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <cinquefoil_5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes
>>Another please pretty please?
>>Thank you,
>>Anita
>>1. 
>>http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/soive2000/?action=view&current=my
>>steryplant2a.jpg
>
>That might be a mallow of some description, but I can't see enough 
>detail to be sure one way or the other.
>
>The calyces appear to be valvate in aestivation, and persistent in 
>fruit, with the fruit being a schizocarp, and the foliage alternate 
>with the leaves palmately veined. That matches a mallow.
>
>Unlobed leaves, and leaves with rounded (as opposed to cordate) bases 
>are relatively rare among mallows, but they do exist. I'm not familiar 
>enough with the American species to make an identification, but the 
>plant doesn't look incompatible with an identification as Sida spinosa.
>
>http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/weeds/plants/prickly_sida.htm
>http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SISP&photoID=sisp_1h.jpg

A professional botanist (and Malvastrum expert) tells me that it's 
Malvastrum coromandelianum ssp. coromandelianum.

The easy way to distinguish Sida (and segregates) from Malvastrum is 
that Malvastrum has an involucel - an extra whorl of floral parts below 
the calyx - of three lanceolate or spatulate bracteoles, and Sida (and 
segregates) don't. Also, this Malvastrum has "plicate" leaves, and Sidas 
don't.

>>
>>2. 
>>http://s87.photobucket.com/albums/k125/soive2000/?action=view&current=my
>>steryplant2b.jpg
>>
>That's a different plant.

-- 
Stewart Robert Hinsley