- Family:
- Malvaceae Juss.
Malva Tourn. ex L.

[FTEA]
Malvaceae, Bernard Verdcourt & Geoffrey Mwachala. Pavonia, B Verdcourt; Kosteletzkya, OJ Blanchard Jr.; Gossypium, P Fryxell & B Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2009
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs; indument stellate
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves unlobed to deeply palmately divided, often with angular or broadly rounded lobes; margins crenate; stipules triangular to falcate, ± persistent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers solitary in leaf axils or fasciculate; sometimes the clusters forming narrow interrupted panicles
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Epicalyx
- Epicalyx of 3 completely free bracts or adnate to calyx
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 5-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals usually pink to purple or white, often with dark veins, 5, free, mostly broadly obovate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens numerous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary with 8–15 carpels each with a single ascending ovule.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Styles the same number as the carpels
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a schizocarp; mericarps separating, indehiscent, smooth to variously sculptured, glabrous or hairy.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs, usually with stellate hairs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves entire to deeply lobed; stipules triangular to falcate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Flowers in axillary clusters
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Epicalyx
- Epicalyx bracts 3, linear to ovate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx 5-lobed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary of 8–15 free 1-ovulate carpels arranged around a central column; style branches as many as carpels
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit a discoid schizocarp; mericarps ± reniform, flattened, indehiscent, smooth or variously sculptured.
- Distribution
- Some 60 species in the Old World, mainly in temperate and subtropical regions.
[FZ]
Malvaceae, A. W. Exell. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Annuals or perennials, herbaceous to somewhat suffruticose, erect to decumbent or prostrate, nearly glabrous to more or less densely pubescent.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves usually suborbicular-reniform in outline, crenate to serrate or shallowly to rather deeply palmatilobed, usually long-petioled.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers axillary, usually clustered or fasciculate; pedicels often short to 0.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Epicalyx
- Epicalyx of 3 free or nearly free linear to ovate bracts.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx cupular, 5-lobed; lobes deltoid, acute.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals usually obcordate-cuneate, emarginate at the apex, often with darker-coloured veins converging towards the glabrous or ciliate claw.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Staminal tube antheriferous at the apex only.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary of 9–15 free 1-ovulate carpels arranged around a central torus; style-branches as many as there are carpels, obliquely clavate; stigmas linear, decurrent on the inside of the style-branches.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit discoid, separating at maturity into suborbicular-reniform free indehiscent muticous mericarps; mericarps smooth or variously sculptured on the back, glabrous or pubescent.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Assam, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Northwest, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New South Wales, Niger, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Queensland, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tasmania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Victoria, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil South, British Columbia, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Delaware, Desventurados Is., District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Florida, Free State, Galápagos, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kamchatka, Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Louisiana, Magadan, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Caledonia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northwest Territorie, Nova Scotia, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Rwanda, Réunion, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tristan da Cunha, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
- Malva acerifolia (Cav.) Alef.
- Malva × adulterina Wallr.
- Malva aegyptia L.
- Malva aethiopica C.J.S.Davis
- Malva agrigentina (Tineo) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva alcea L.
- Malva arborea (L.) Webb & Berthel.
- Malva × arbosii Sennen
- Malva assurgentiflora (Kellogg) M.F.Ray
- Malva bucharica Iljin
- Malva cachemiriana (Cambess.) Alef.
- Malva cavanillesiana Raizada
- Malva × clementii (Cheek) Stace
- Malva × columbretensis (Juan & M.B.Crespo) Juan & M.B.Crespo
- Malva cretica Cav.
- Malva durieui Spach
- Malva × egarensis Cadevall
- Malva excisa Rchb.
- Malva flava (Desf.) Alef.
- Malva hispanica L.
- Malva × inodora Ponert
- Malva × intermedia Boreau
- Malva leonardii I.Riedl
- Malva lindsayi (Moran) M.F.Ray
- Malva × litoralis Dethard. ex Rchb.
- Malva longiflora (Boiss. & Reut.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva ludwigii (L.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva lusitanica (L.) Valdés
- Malva maroccana (Batt. & Trab.) Verloove & Lambinon
- Malva microphylla (Baker f.) Molero & J.M.Monts.
- Malva moschata L.
- Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva neglecta Wallr.
- Malva nicaeensis All.
- Malva oblongifolia (Boiss.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva occidentalis (S.Watson) M.F.Ray
- Malva olbia (L.) Alef.
- Malva oxyloba Boiss.
- Malva pacifica M.F.Ray
- Malva pamiroalaica Iljin
- Malva parviflora L.
- Malva phoenicea (Vent.) Alef.
- Malva preissiana Miq.
- Malva punctata (All.) Alef.
- Malva pusilla Sm.
- Malva qaiseri Abedin
- Malva setigera K.F.Schimp. & Spenn.
- Malva stenopetala (Coss. & Durieu ex Batt.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva stipulacea Cav.
- Malva subovata (DC.) Molero & J.M.Monts.
- Malva sylvestris L.
- Malva thuringiaca (L.) Vis.
- Malva tournefortiana L.
- Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb.
- Malva unguiculata (Desf.) Alef.
- Malva valdesii (Molero & J.M.Monts.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
- Malva verticillata L.
- Malva vidalii (Pau) Molero & J.M.Monts.
- Malva waziristanensis Blatt.
- Malva weinmanniana (Besser ex Rchb.) Conran
- Malva xizangensis Y.S.Ye, L.Fu & D.X.Duan
- Malva × zoernigii Fleisch.
Malva Tourn. ex L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Rico, L. [1759], Armenia | K000297272 | No | |||
Rico, L. [1908], Morocco | K000564906 | No | |||
Nascimento, M.S.B. [1049], Brazil | K001214495 | Yes | |||
Rico, L. [1923], Morocco | K000564893 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 687 (1753)
Accepted by
- Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 308 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 2: 687 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
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Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Somalia
Flora of Somalia
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0