Malva hispanica

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Malva hispanica
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Malva
Species:
M. hispanica
Binomial name
Malva hispanica
L.
Synonyms [1]
  • Malva cuneifoliaCav.
  • Malva spithameaCav.

Malva hispanica, the Spanish mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the western Mediterranean. [1] Uniquely in its genus, Malva hispanica flowers possess a bilobed epicalyx, which is derived from an ancestral trimerous structure and represents a loss of the adaxial epicalyx lobe. [2]

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<i>Malva preissiana</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Malva parviflora</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Malva multiflora</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Malva nicaeensis</i> Species of flowering plant

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<i>Malva subovata</i> Species of plant in the genus Malva

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Malva cretica is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Tunisia, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, Italy, Albania, Greece, the eastern Aegean Islands, Crete, Cyprus, and Turkey, and introduced to France. There may be a subspecies, Malva cretica subsp. althaeoides, present in Spain.

Malva ludwigii is a widespread species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is native to northern Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, and India, and disjunctly to Namibia and South Africa. A desert-adapted annual, it is also somewhat weedy, being found in cultivated land and on roadsides.

References

  1. 1 2 "Malva hispanica L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. Bello, María A.; Martínez-Asperilla, Aránzazu; Fuertes-Aguilar, Javier (2016). "Floral development of Lavatera trimestris and Malva hispanica reveals the nature of the epicalyx in the Malva generic alliance". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181: 84–98. doi:10.1111/boj.12391.