Malva sylvestrisL. [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Malva sicula
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Lavatera sylvestris
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Malva gymnocarpa
Malva longelobata
Malva longilobata
Malva parmensis
Malva tournefourtiana
Malva ambigua
Malva sinensis
Lavatera calabrica
Malva sylvestris
Flora
Entry for Malva sylvestris L. [family MALVACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 1, Part 2, page 420, (1961) Author: A. W. Exell
Names
Malva sylvestrisL. [family MALVACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 689 (1753). — Exell & Mendonça, C.F.A. 1, 1: 147 (1937). Type from Europe.
Information
Erect perennial up to c. 1 m. tall; stems sparsely hirsute with simple or stellate usually spreading hairs. Leaf-lamina of basal leaves 5–10 cm. in diam., shallowly crenate, of upper leaves ± deeply 5-lobed with crenulate-serrate lobes, glabrous except for a strigose pubescence on the main veins; petiole (2) 4–9 (16) cm. long, pubescent in an adaxial groove, otherwise glabrous; stipules 5–10 × 2–5 mm. obliquely ovate, serrate, acuminate. Flowers 2·5–5 cm. in diam., mauve-purple, or light magenta with darker purple veins, 2–5-fasciculate or in short racemes; pedicels 1–2 cm. long, glabrous or sparsely hirsute. Bracts of epicalyx 2/3 the length of the calyx, oblong-lanceolate. Calyx stellate-pilose, not enlarged in fruit; lobes ovate-deltoid. Petals 1·5–2 cm. long; claw barbate. Staminal tube setose. Mericarps 9–11, dorsally reticulate, usually glabrous.
