Malvaceae Mallow Family ca. 200 genera />2300 species ca. 200 genera />2300 species Hisbiscus (rose mallow) Abutilon (Indian mallow) Sphaeralcea (globemallow) Malvastrum Sida Anoda Gossypium (cotton) Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Connate sepals Stellate hairs Malvaceae
Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Hibiscus sp. Epicalyx Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Parted stigma Stamens are monadelphous (united by filaments and forming a tube around gynoecium) Epicalyx = involucre that resembles outer calyx Malvaceae
Flowers and Inflorescence Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Stems and Leaves Reproductive Structures Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Perianth Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae
Spharalcea sp. Malvaceae
S. laxa S. fendleri Malvaceae