Malveae
Encyclopedia
Malveae is a tribe
Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 of flowering plant
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...

s in the mallow
Malva
Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , 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...

 family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Malvaceae, or the mallow family, is a family of flowering plants containing over 200 genera with close to 2,300 species. Judd & al. Well known members of this family include okra, jute and cacao...

, subfamily
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Malvoideae
Malvoideae
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...

.

Genera

  • Abutilon
    Abutilon
    Abutilon is a large genus of approximately 150 species of broadleaf evergreens in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus includes annuals, perennials, shrubs, and small trees from 1–10 m tall, and is found in the tropical and subtropical regions of all continents. The leaves are alternate,...

    Mill.
  • Acaulimalva Krapov.
  • Akrosida
    Akrosida
    Akrosida is a genus in the tribe Malveae in the plant family Malvaceae. In 2007, the genus consisted of only two species: Akrosida floribunda, native to the Dominican Republic, and Akrosida macrophylla, native to Brazil. Both species have very limited distributions....

    Fryxell & Fuertes
  • Alcea L.
  • Allosidastrum
    Allosidastrum
    Allosidastrum is a New World genus comprising four species in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae. Members of the genus are woody, bearing ovate leaves with long petioles. Flowers - borne without calyculi - bear small, basally rounded calyxes of a length greater than that of their pedicels...

    (Hochr.) Krapov. et al.
  • Allowissadula
    Allowissadula
    Allowissadula, the false Indianmallow, is a North American genus in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae. Members of the genus typically bear flowers each with a calyx six to fourteen millimeters in length, five styles and five carpels. Members of the genus lack epicalyxes.-Species:*A....

    Bates
    George Latimer Bates
    George Latimer Bates , LL.D., M.B.O.U. was an American naturalist.Bates studied at Knox College, Galesburg and at the Chicago Theological Seminary and in 1895 visited West Africa and lived in the south east Cameroon, making a living by farming...

  • Althaea
    Althaea (genus)
    Althaea is a genus of 6-12 species of perennial herbs native to Europe and western Asia. It includes Althaea officinalis, also known as the marshmallow plant, whence the fluffy confection got its name. They are found on the banks of rivers and in salt marshes, preferring moist, sandy soils. The...

    L.
  • Anisodontea
    Anisodontea
    Anisodontea is a genus in the tribe Malveae in the family Malvaceae. It comprises twenty-one species native to South Africa. Members of the genus typically bear toothed leaves with three or five palmate, uneven lobes...

    C.Presl
  • Anoda
    Anoda
    Anoda is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family. There are 23 or 24 species of these herbs, most native to Mexico and South America. They are generally erect plants with a variety of leaf shapes, and many bear colorful flowers...

    Cav.
  • Asterotrichion Klotzsch
  • Bakeridesia Hochr.
  • Bastardia
    Bastardia
    Bastardia is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.-Selected species:* Bastardia angulata Guill. & Perr.* Bastardia aristata Turcz.* Bastardia berlandieri A.Gray...

    Kunth
  • Bastardiastrum (Rose) D. M. Bates
  • Bastardiopsis (K.Schum.) Hassl.
  • Batesimalva Fryxell
  • Billieturnera Fryxell
  • Briquetia Hochr.
  • Callirhoe
    Callirhoe
    Callirrhoe may refer to:* In Greek mythology:** Callirrhoe , a daughter of Oceanus and mother of Geryon, one of the Oceanids...

    Nutt.
  • Calyculogygas Krapov.
  • Calyptraemalva Krapov.
  • Corynabutilon (K.Schum.) Kearney
  • Cristaria Cav.
  • Dendrosida Fryxell
  • Dirhamphis Krapov.
  • Eremalche
    Eremalche
    Genus Eremalche is a small group of flowering plants in the mallow family. They are endemic to the United States desert southwest.Species:*Eremalche exilis - white mallow*Eremalche parryi - Parry's mallow...

    Greene
  • Fryxellia D.M.Bates
  • Fuertesimalva Fryxell
  • Gaya Kunth
  • Gynatrix
    Gynatrix
    Gynatrix is a genus of dioecious flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, endemic to south-east Australia.There are two species within the genus:...

    Alef.
  • Herissantia
    Herissantia
    Herissantia is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family sometimes referred to as bladder mallows. These are five species of annual and perennial herbs with trailing stems and bladderlike fruits. They are native to the tropical and warm temperate Americas...

    Medik.
  • Hochreutinera Krapov.
  • Hoheria
    Hoheria
    Hoheria is a genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. All are endemic to New Zealand and the Kermadec Islands. The genus name is a Latinization of the Māori language name, Houhere...

    A.Cunn.
  • Horsfordia
    Horsfordia
    Horsfordia is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family known commonly as velvetmallows. There are four species which are native to Mexico and the southwestern United States...

    A.Gray
  • Iliamna
    Iliamna (plant)
    Iliamna is a genus of malvaceous plants family Malvaceae). These perennial herbs are known commonly as wild hollyhocks and sometimes as "globe-mallows"...

    Greene
  • Kearnemalvastrum D.M.Bates
  • Kitaibela Willd.
  • Krapovickasia Fryxell
  • Lavatera
    Lavatera
    Lavatera is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, central and eastern Asia, and Australia. A number of species previously listed in this genus have now been transferred to the related genus Malva...

    L.
  • Lawrencia
    Lawrencia
    Lawrencia is a plant genus in the family Malvaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.Species include:*Lawrencia berthae Melville - Showy Lawrencia*Lawrencia buchananensis Lander*Lawrencia chrysoderma Lander...

    Hook.
  • Lecanophora Speg.
  • Malacothamnus
    Malacothamnus
    Malacothamnus is a genus of malvaceous plants native to California, and related to the Iliamnas of the US interior and the Phymosias of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.Species:...

    Greene
  • Malope
    Malope
    Malope is a genus of three species ) in the mallow botanical family . Of the three species, Malope trifida is often used as an ornamental plant .-Species:*Malope anatolica Huber-Mor.*Malope trifida Cav.*Malope malacoides L....

    L.
  • Malva
    Malva
    Malva is a genus of about 25–30 species of herbaceous annual, biennial, and perennial plants in the family Malvaceae , 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...

    L.
  • Malvastrum A.Gray
  • Malvella
    Malvella
    Malvella is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family.Species include:*Malvella lepidota*Malvella leprosa*Malvella sagittifolia*Malvella sherardiana-External links:**...

    Jaub. & Spach
  • Meximalva Fryxell
  • Modiola Moench
  • Modiolastrum K.Schum.
  • Monteiroa Krapov.
  • Napaea
    Napaea (plant)
    Napaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plant in Malvaceae. The single species is Napaea dioica which is a tall perennial herb, native from central and eastern USA. Plants are occasionally grown as an ornamental plant in wildflower gardens. It's commonly called Glade Mallow....

    L.
  • Neobaclea Hochr.
  • Neobrittonia Hochr.
  • Nototriche
    Nototriche
    Nototriche is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.It contains the following species:* Nototriche ecuadoriensis* Nototriche jamesonii...

    Turcz.
  • Palaua
    Palaua (plant)
    Palaua is a genus of malvaceous plants native to the Andes. It shares with Malope and Kitaibelia the property of possessing capitate schizocarps, and was formerly classified with them in a subfamily Malopoideae or tribe Malopeae. It is now considered to be more closely related to Sphaeralcea, and...

    Cav.
  • Periptera DC.
  • Phymosia
    Phymosia
    Phymosia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.Species include:*Phymosia abutiloides Desv. ex Ham.*Phymosia anomala Fryxell*Phymosia crenulata Fryxell*Phymosia floribunda Fryxell...

    Desv. ex Ham.
  • Plagianthus J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
  • Pseudabutilon R.E.Fr.
  • Rhynchosida Fryxell
  • Robinsonella
    Robinsonella
    Robinsonella is a genus of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family.It contains the following species:* Robinsonella brevituba* Robinsonella mirandae* Robinsonella samaricarpa...

    Rose & Baker f.
  • Sida L.
  • Sidalcea
    Sidalcea
    Sidalcea is a genus of the botanical family Malvaceae. It contains several species of flower known generally as checkerblooms or checkermallows.Selected species:*Sidalcea calycosa - annual checkerbloom...

    A.Gray
  • Sidasodes Fryxell & Fuertes
  • Sidastrum Baker f.
  • Sphaeralcea A.St.-Hil.
  • Tarasa Phil.
  • Tetrasida Ulbr.
  • Wissadula
    Wissadula
    Wissadula is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It contains25 to 30 species of herbs and subshrubs that are mostly native to the neotropics, with several in tropical Asia and Africa. The name is derived from the Sinhala language.- Selected species :* Wissadula amplissima ...

    Medik.
  • The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
     
    x
    OK