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Malva is a genus of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae. It is one of several closely related genera in the family to bear the common English name mallow . The genus is widespread throughout the temperate , subtropical and tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Europe.
Malva sylvestris is a species of the mallow genus Malva, of which it the type species.Known as common mallow to English-speaking Europeans, [3] it acquired the common names of cheeses, high mallow and tall mallow (mauve des bois by the French) [4] as it migrated from its native home in Western Europe, North Africa and Asia through the English-speaking world.
Malva subovata, the tree mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the shores of the western and central Mediterranean. [1] When previously known as Lavatera maritima it gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit .
Malva parviflora was described by Carl Linnaeus and published in Demonstrationes Plantarum in Horto Upsaliensi on October 3, 1753. [10]Etymology. The genus name "Malva"' is derived from Latin malva, -ae, a word used in Ancient Rome to refer to various types of mallow, primarily common mallow (Malva sylvestris), but also marshmallow (Althaea officinalis) and tree mallow (Malva arborea).
Malva neglecta is a species of plant of the family Malvaceae, native to most of the Old World except sub-Saharan Africa.It is an annual growing to 0.6 m (2 ft). It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow. [2]
Malva multiflora (previously known as Lavatera cretica) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Cornish mallow and Cretan hollyhock.It is native to western Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin, and it is naturalized in areas with a Mediterranean climate, such as parts of Australia, South Africa, and California.
Malva moschata, the musk mallow or musk-mallow, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland, and east to southern Russia and Turkey.
Malva arborea (previously known as Lavatera arborea, or, more recently as Malva eriocalyx), the tree mallow, is a species of mallow native to the coasts of western Europe and the Mediterranean region, from Ireland and Britain south to Algeria and Libya, and east to Greece.