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JANAS 27(2)
PLANT: Subshrubs or shrubs, less often trees, rarely herbs, often stellate-pubescent. LEAVES: alternate, simple or palmately lobed, usually ovate or lanceolate. FLOWERS: (in ours) perfect and actinomorphic; sepals and petals 5 (or calyx gamosepalous and 5-toothed or -lobed); stamens monadelphous and usually numerous; ovary superior, 3-35-carpelled, with 1-35 styles. INFLORESCENCE: panicles or racemes, rarely heads or umbels, or the flowers often solitary in the leafaxils. FRUIT: schizocarpic or capsular. NOTES: Over 100 genera, perhaps 2000 species, chiefly of tropical and subtropical regions, but with a few temperate-zone genera. The family is well known for the economically important cotton crop (Gossypium spp.) and for numerous ornamentals, especially in Hibiscus and Alcea. Fryxell, P. A. 1988. Syst. Bot. Monogr. 25:1-522. REFERENCES: Fryxell, Paul A. 1994. Malvaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 27(2), 222-236.
Species within checklist: Flora of the Southern Colorado Plateau Network
Abutilon abutiloides
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Abutilon incanum
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Abutilon parvulum
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Alcea rosea
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Ayenia compacta
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Ayenia insulicola
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Hibiscus denudatus
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Hibiscus trionum
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Iliamna grandiflora
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Iliamna rivularis
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Malva neglecta
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Malva parviflora
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Malvella lepidota
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Malvella leprosa
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Sida abutifolia
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Sida neomexicana
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Sidalcea candida
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Sidalcea neomexicana
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Sphaeralcea ambigua
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Sphaeralcea angustifolia
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Sphaeralcea coccinea
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Sphaeralcea digitata
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Sphaeralcea emoryi
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Sphaeralcea fendleri
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Sphaeralcea grossulariifolia
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Sphaeralcea hastulata
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Sphaeralcea incana
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Sphaeralcea janeae
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Sphaeralcea leptophylla
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Sphaeralcea moorei
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Sphaeralcea munroana
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Sphaeralcea parvifolia
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Sphaeralcea rusbyi
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