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Common name:     Mallows   (mauve)                    

Etymology:   The word "mallow" is derived from Old English "mealwe", which was imported from Latin "malva", cognate with Ancient Greek μαλάχη (malakhē) meaning "mallow", both perhaps reflecting a Mediterranean term. The colour mauve was in 1859 named after the French name for this plant.

Flowers:                  

• Exhibit nectaries with densely arranged hairs. Most are located on the inner surface of the sepals, 

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Fruit:                         

• The fruits are most often loculicidal capsules, schizocarps or nuts.

Leaves:         

•     Usually alternate, palmately lobed or compound and palmately veined. The margin may be  entire,  but when dentate, a vein ends at the tip of each tooth. Stipules are present.  

Habit:        

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Species:                     

• World:          4 225  S,    244 G

• Australia:      S,    G

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EXAMPLES:

Androclava

Alyogyne

Brachychiton

Coomersonia

A genus of 25 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. Plants in this genus are shrubs or trees, occurring from Indochina to Australia and have stems, leaves and flowers covered with star-like hairs. The leaves are simple, often with irregularly-toothed edges, the flowers bisexual with five sepals, five petals and five stamens and the fruit a capsule with five valves. The genus underwent a revision in 2011 and some species were separated from Commersonia, others were added from Rulingia.

The genus is named after Philibert Commerson (1727–73), a French naturalist who sailed with the Bougainville expedition in 1766 

Guichenotia

Hibiscus

Lysiosepalum

Pavonia

Seringa