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Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
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Malvaviscus Fabr.

MALVAVISCUS Adans.

Shrubs. Lvs toothed or lobed. Fls axillary and solitary or fascicled, or in terminal racemes or heads; epicalyx segments 6-16, united at least in part; calyx 5-toothed; petals ± closed. Style branches twice as many as loculi, clavate. Fr. of 5, indehiscent mericarps enclosed in a fleshy envelope.

3 spp., tropical and subtropical America. Naturalised sp. 1.

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