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Malvella
Family: Malvaceae
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JANAS 27(2)
PLANTS: Prostrate perennial herbs with stellate and lepidote pubescence. LEAVES: asymmetrical, reniform to triangular, crenate or entire. FLOWERS: solitary in the leafaxils on long pedicels; involucel trimerous or absent; calyx 5-lobed; petals pale yellow fading rose; styles with capitate stigmas. FRUITS: schizocarpic, oblate, minutely pubescent; mericarps 7-10, more or less smooth, indehiscent. SEEDS: solitary, glabrous. NOTES: 4 spp., one from the Middle East, three from the Americas. (Diminutive of Malva = little Malva). Fryxell, P. A. 1974. Southw. Naturalist 19:97-103. REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.
Species within checklist: Fort Davis National Historic Site (IP)
Malvella leprosa
Image of Malvella leprosa
The National Science Foundation
Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)