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Family: Malvaceae
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JANAS 27(2)
PLANTS: Trailing, ascending, or erect herbs, glabrous or pubescent. LEAVES: long-petiolate, orbicular or reniform, more or less 5-7-lobed. FLOWERS: solitary or fasciculate in the leafaxils, sometimes aggregated terminally; bracts of involucel (2-)3; calyx 5-lobed, often accrescent; petals purple (or white), often apically notched; styles filiform, the stigmatic zone along one side of styles. FRUITS: schizocarpic, oblate, pubescent or glabrous; mericarps indehiscent, semi-circular, often more or less reticulate dorsally. SEEDS: solitary. NOTES: Ca. 40 spp. from Eur., Afr., and the Middle East. (altered from Greek malache = soft). Dalby, D. H. 1968. Flora Europaea 2:249-251. REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.
Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Bractlets of the epicalyx 3, linear to obovate; stamen-column bearing anthers at the summit; pet truncate to (in our spp.) obcordate; carpels 10-20, beakless, one-seeded, indehiscent, the sides incompletely covering the seed; styles slender, stigmatic along the inner side; annual to perennial herbs with broad, toothed to lobed or parted lvs, the fls solitary or fascicled in the axils. 25, temp. Eurasia.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Malva acerifolia
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Malva aegyptia
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Malva alcea
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Malva arborea
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Malva assurgentiflora
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Malva aurantiaca
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Malva borealis
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Malva hispanica
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Malva maritima
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Malva nicaeensis
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Malva occidentalis
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Malva officinalis
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Malva pacifica
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Malva pseudolavatera
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Malva pusilla
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