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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 National Park Service, Intermountain Region || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Abelmoschus esculentus
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Abutilon abutiloides
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Abutilon californicum
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Abutilon coahuilae
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Abutilon fruticosum
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Abutilon incanum
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Abutilon malacum
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Abutilon mollicomum
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Abutilon palmeri
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Abutilon parishii
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Abutilon parvulum
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Abutilon reventum
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Abutilon theophrasti
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Abutilon wrightii
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Alcea rosea
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Allowissadula holosericea
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Althaea rosea
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Anoda abutiloides
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Anoda cristata
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Anoda lanceolata
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Anoda pentaschista
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Ayenia compacta
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Ayenia filiformis
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Ayenia insulicola
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Ayenia microphylla
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Ayenia pilosa
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Batesimalva violacea
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Callirhoe alcaeoides
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Callirhoe bushii
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Callirhoe digitata
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Callirhoe involucrata
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Eremalche exilis
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Gossypium hirsutum
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Gossypium thurberi
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Herissantia crispa
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Hermannia pauciflora
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Hibiscus biseptus
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Hibiscus coulteri
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Hibiscus denudatus
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Hibiscus martianus
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Hibiscus syriacus
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Hibiscus trionum
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Horsfordia alata
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Horsfordia newberryi
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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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Malvastrum bicuspidatum
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Malvastrum hispidum
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