Malacothamnus helleri

Malacothamnus helleri is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name Heller's bushmallow.[1][2] It is endemic to Northern California, where it is a rare species. It has a California Rare Plant Rank of 3.3 (Plants about which more information is needed; not very threatened in California).[3] Malacothamnus hellerii is occasionally treated within Malacothamnus fremontii.[4][5][2]

Malacothamnus helleri
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Malacothamnus
Species:
M. helleri
Binomial name
Malacothamnus helleri

References
  1. Kearney, T. H. 1951. “The Genus Malacothamnus, Greene (Malvaceae).” Leaflets of Western Botany VI (6):113–40.
  2. Slotta, T. 2012. Malacothamnus. In B. Baldwin, D. Goldman, D. Keil, R. Patterson, T. J. Rosatti, and D. H. Wilken [eds.], The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, 884–885. University of California Press.
  3. "CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants: Malacothamnus helleri", accessed 2021-12-11
  4. Bates, D. M. 1993. “Malacothamnus.” In The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California, edited by James C. Hickman, 751–754. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  5. Bates, D. M. 2015. “Malacothamnus.” In Flora of North America North of Mexico, edited by Flora of North America Editorial Committee, 6:280–85. New York and Oxford.


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