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Malva tricuspidata

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Name

Identification
Malva tricuspidata Aiton [family MALVACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, null Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Malvastrum carpinioides
  • Malva tricuspidata
  • Sida carpinifolia
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Flora

Entry for Malvastrum coromandelianum L. Garcke [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
Malvastrum spp. [family MALVACEAE], — Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 413 (1916).
Malva tricuspidata R.Br. [family MALVACEAE], in Ait., Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 4: 210 (1812) nom. illegit. Type from the West Indies.
Malvastrum coromandelianum L. Garcke [family MALVACEAE], in Bonplandia, 5: 295 (1857). — Keay, F.W .T .A. ed. 2, 1, 2: 350 (1958). Type from India.
Malvastrum tricuspidatum A. Gray [family MALVACEAE], Pl. Wright. 1: 16 (1852) nom. illegit. — Mast. in Oliv., F.T.A. 1: 178 (1868). Type as above.
Malva coromandeliana L. [family MALVACEAE], Sp. Pl. 2: 687 (1753). Type as above.
Information
Annual or biennial suffrutex up to 1 m. tall (usually under 60 cm.) with the habit of a Sida, sparsely covered with simple and 4-rayed stellate-strigose hairs. Leaf-lamina 3–6 × 1–4 cm., coarsely serrate, apex usually obtuse; petiole short; stipules c. 5 mm. long, lanceolate. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf-axils; pedicels c. 5 mm. long. Bracts of epicalyx 5 × 1 mm., linear. Calyx 8 mm. long, divided to c. 2/3; lobes ovate, acuminate, ciliate. Petals c. 8 × 4 mm., obovate. Staminal tube glabrous. Fruit c. 6 mm. in diam.; mericarps 2 × 3 × 1 mm., with 2 short dorsal spines near the middle, crowned in the ventral area with the persistent base of the style, the inner upper portion produced into an acute slightly hooked beak with a narrow sinus below, dorsally and in part laterally sparsely stellate-hairy and also dorsally setose.
Habitat
An introduced weed found along roadsides, on rubbish-heaps and in old cultivation.
Range
Native of N. America but now pantropical
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, Carvalho 235 (LM; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique MS Vila Machado, Garcia 986a (BM; LISC).Zimbabwe W Bulawayo Municipal Park, fl. & fr. 30.iv.1958, Drummond 5517 (K; PRE; SRGH).Malawi C Kota Kota, Benson 78 (PRE).Zimbabwe C Salisbury, fl. & fr. 11.vi.1956, Drummond 5127 (KM; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa

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