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Common mallow is a common name used for a number of different species of Malva: Malva sylvestris is the common mallow in Europe and North Africa; Malva neglecta is the common mallow in the United States; Malva preissiana is a "common mallow" in Australia and New Zealand
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 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 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 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).
Malvoideae is a botanical name at the rank of subfamily, which includes in the minimum the genus Malva.It was first used by Burnett in 1835, but was not much used until recently, where, within the framework of the APG System, which unites the families Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae of the Cronquist system, the aggregate family Malvaceae is divided into 9 subfamilies ...
Malva, from a Latin plant name [124] [125] [126] 245 genera, scattered worldwide [61] [127] Hairy shrubs, trees and herbaceous plants. Cocoa beans are native to tropical South and Central America, and Cola nuts are native to West Africa. The most commercially valuable genera are Gossypium (for cotton) and Corchorus (for jute). [8] [52] Malvales
Malva pseudolavatera M.F.Ray, accepted as Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Gallaso Malva pusilla Sm. not indigenous, naturalised Malva sylvestris L. not indigenous, naturalised