Modiola Moench

Bristlemallow (en), Modiole (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, usually glabrate. Stems procumbent, not viscid, sometimes with few simple hairs on herbage. Leaves: stipules persistent, ovate; blade orbiculate, usually palmately 5–7-ribbed, narrowly triangular; corolla wide-campanulate, salmon-orange, often with darker center, drying brick red; staminal column included; ovary 16–22-carpellate; ovules 1 per cell; style 16–22-branched; stigmas capitate. Fruits schizocarps, erect, not inflated, flattened disc indented in center, not indurate, setose; mericarps 16–22, 2-celled, dorsally setose, laterally glabrous, with 2 apical spurs/spines, chamber divided by endoglossum or partial septum, lower cell strongly rugose, indehiscent, upper cell smoother, dehiscent. Seeds 1 per cell, rounded, with proximal notch, sparsely, minutely hairy. x = 9.
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Bractlets of the epicalyx 3, linear to obovate; carpels numerous, at maturity hispid and 2-horned at the summit, dehiscent, with thin lateral walls, 2-seeded, the seeds separated by a triangular partial septum intruded from the outer wall; annual or biennial with divided lvs and small red-purple fls. Monospecific.
Procumbent herb. Lvs variously palmately divided. Epicalyx segments 3, free to base; calyx evenly 5-toothed; petals spreading, obtuse. Style-branches as many as loculi, filiform. Fr. of numerous, 2-3-seeded, awned cells arranged in a single flat whorl, dehiscent and separating from central axis.
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

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Images

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Distribution

Modiola world distribution map, present in New Zealand and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30017390-2
WFO ID wfo-4000024525
COL ID 63BW3
BDTFX ID 86801
INPN ID 194833
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Modiola Modanthos

Lower taxons

Modiola caroliniana