Malacothamnus parishii

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Malacothamnus

|species = parishii

|authority = (Eastw.) Kearney

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Malacothamnus parishii is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common name Parish's bushmallow.Kearney, T. H. 1951. “The Genus Malacothamnus, Greene (Malvaceae).” Leaflets of Western Botany VI (6):113–40. It is endemic to San Bernardino County, California, where it is confirmed from only a single collection from 1895. It has a California Rare Plant Rank of 1A (Plants presumed extirpated in California and either rare or extinct elsewhere).[https://rareplants.cnps.org/Plants/Details/1073 "CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants: Malacothamnus parishii", accessed 2021-11-05] Malacothamnus parishii is currently treated as an extreme form of Malacothamnus fasciculatus var. laxiflorus. Phylogenetic analyses are needed to confirm whether it should be treated as a separate species or not. Morse, K. 2023. [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.23937066 Malacothamnus Volume 3: A Revised Treatment of the Genus Malacothamnus (Malvaceae) Based on Morphological and Phylogenetic Evidence.]