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

MALVA L.

Annual or perennial herbs. Lvs toothed, lobed or deeply dissected. Fls usually solitary and axillary or in axillary clusters, rarely in terminal racemes; epicalyx segments (2)-3, free ± to base; calyx evenly 5-toothed; petals spreading, emarginate or deeply notched. Style branches as many as loculi, filiform. Fr. of numerous 1-seeded, indehiscent, awnless mericarps arranged in a single flat whorl round short conic apex of receptacle.

Key

1
Petals 3-15 mm long
2
Petals 15-30 mm long
6
2
Petals 3-5 mm long, ± = calyx; edges of mericarps slightly winged and sometimes toothed
4. *parviflora
Petals 6-15 mm long, c. 2× or > 2× calyx; edges of mericarps rounded or sharply angled but not winged
3
3
Mericarps strongly reticulately veined on back, usually glabrous
4
Mericarps smooth or faintly veined on back, mostly hairy
5
4
Calyx tube ± glabrous at base; petals 6-10 mm long
3. *nicaeensis
Calyx tube moderately to densely hairy at base; petals 12-30 mm long
5. *sylvestris
5
Mericarps hairy, smooth on back; edges sharply angled
2. *neglecta
Mericarps glabrous, weakly ribbed or smooth on back; edges rounded
*verticillata ζ
6
Upper stem lvs shallowly lobed; mericarps strongly reticulately veined on back, usually glabrous
5. *sylvestris
Upper stem lvs deeply divided ± to base with deeply pinnatifid lobes; mericarps smooth on back, densely hairy
1. *moschata

c. 40 spp., N. temperate. Naturalised spp. 6.

Fig. 84. Frs of Ma l lva. A M. moschata; B M. neglecta; C M. nicaeensis, with calyx; D M. parviflora, with calyx. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X6C]
Fig. 84. Frs of Ma l lva. A M. moschata; B M. neglecta; C M. nicaeensis, with calyx; D M. parviflora, with calyx. © All rights reserved. [Image: 4X6C]
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