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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/8/2013)
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Genus
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MALVA L.
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Sp. P1. 687. 1753
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Reference
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Gen. P1. ed.5, 308. 1754.
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Description
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Herbs, sometimes more or less suffruticose, annual or perennial, the stems erect to decumbent or prostrate, glabrous or the indumentum of simple or stellate hairs. Leaves usually long-petiolate, the stipules caducous, the blades commonly more or less circular-cordate in outline, crenate to serrate or shallowly to deeply palmati- lobed or palmatidivided. Flowers axillary, solitary or in more or less dense glom- erules; epicalyx of 3 distinct bractlets; calyx cupuliform, 5-lobed, persistent or accrescent; petals 5, obcordate-cuneate, connate at the base and adnate to the base of the staminal tube, the claws glabrous or ciliate; staminal tube divided at the apex into numerous filaments, the anthers reniform; ovary of more or less 10 free, 1-ovulate carpels, the ovules ascending; style branches isomerous with the carpels, linear, introrsely stigmatose. Fruits discoid, separating into many indehiscent meri- carps, these verticillate around a central axis, reniform, muticous; seeds glabrous; embryo curved, the albumen scant.
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Habit
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Herbs
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Distribution
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An Old World genus of which several species have become naturalized as weeds in North and South America. A few species with relatively large and showy flowers are cultivated as ornamentals. Only one species is reported from Panama.
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