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Malva parviflora

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Identification
Malva parviflora L. [family MALVACEAE ]
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  • Malva parviflora

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Entry for MALVA parviflora Linn. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 1, page 157, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
MALVA parviflora Linn. [family MALVACEAE], ;—DC. Prod. 1. p. 433.
MALVA rotundifolia E. & Z. [family MALVACEAE], ! (non L.)
MALVA microcarpa E. & Z. [family MALVACEAE], ! 298.
MALVA flexuosa E. & Z. [family MALVACEAE], ! 299.
MALVA pusilla [family MALVACEAE], E. Bot. t. 241.
Information
procumbent or prostrate; leaves on long petioles, reniform, obtusely 5–7 lobed, crenate; flowers clustered in the axils, subsessile, the petals scarcely longer than the calyx; carpels 10–12, sub-glabrous, cancellated or netted, the margins raised, sharp, and denticulate. Flowers pale flesh colour, small. All the Cape specimens I have seen have the transversely ribbed and furrowed carpels and sharp ridges, characteristic of M. parviflora. The pubescence and size of leaves vary much.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Roadsides and waste places; a weed, introduced from Europe. (Herb. Hook., Sond.).

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