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Malvaceae (/ m æ l ˈ v eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /), or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Well-known members of economic importance include okra , cotton , cacao , roselle and durian .
They maintain Malvaceae in a strict sense, but only by splitting the "core Malvales" rather finely into a series of smaller and narrowly defined families (Bombacaceae, Byttneriaceae, Brownlowiaceae, Durionaceae, Helicteraceae, Malvaceae, Pentapetaceae, Sparrmanniaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae); while the "traditional" core Malvalean ...
Malvales is an order of flowering plants.As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within 9 families.The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots.
This is a list of genera in the plant family Malvaceae. [1] Malvaceae includes Alcea (hollyhock), ... This page was last edited on 22 June 2024, at 15:02 (UTC).
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. [3] The leaves are alternate, palmately lobed.
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.
Tilioideae is a flowering plant subfamily in the family Malvaceae, though it was formerly considered a large group, placed at family rank and called Tiliaceae.. Within the framework of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Groups III [1] & IV systems, [2] an extended family Malvaceae is recognized by uniting the core Malvales of the Cronquist system - Bombacaceae, Malvaceae sensu stricto, Sterculiaceae and ...
Tilia americana is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to eastern North America, from southeast Manitoba east to New Brunswick, southwest to northeast Oklahoma, southeast to South Carolina, and west along the Niobrara River to Cherry County, Nebraska.