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Malva hispanica

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Species of plant in the genus Malva

Malva hispanica
Flowers
Botanical illustration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Genus: Malva
Species: M. hispanica
Binomial name
Malva hispanica
L.
Synonyms
  • Malva cuneifolia Cav.
  • Malva spithamea Cav.

Malva hispanica, the Spanish mallow, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to the western Mediterranean. Uniquely in its genus, Malva hispanica flowers possess a bilobed epicalyx, which is derived from an ancestral trimerous structure and represents a loss of the adaxial epicalyx lobe.

References

  1. ^ "Malva hispanica L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. Bello, María A.; Martínez-Asperilla, Aránzazu; Fuertes-Aguilar, Javier (2016). "Floral development of Lavatera trimestris and Malva hispanica reveals the nature of the epicalyx in the Malva generic alliance". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 181: 84–98. doi:10.1111/boj.12391.
Taxon identifiers
Malva hispanica


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