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Lavatera L.

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L.
L.
Linnaeus, C. 1753: Species Plantarum. Impensis Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm.
1753
690-692
ICN
Lavatera L.
genus
Lavatera

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Plantae
Tracheophyta
Magnoliopsida
Malvales
Malvaceae
Lavatera

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Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. 1988: Flora of New Zealand. Vol. IV. Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons. Botany Division DSIR, Christchurch.

Lavatera L.

Annual to perennial herbs, woody shrubs or trees. Lvs toothed or lobed. Fls solitary and axillary, or in axillary clusters or terminal racemes; epicalyx segments 3, united at least in part; 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, separating at maturity.

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Lavatera L.
Lavatera L.
Escobar, P.; Schönswetter, P. et al. (2009)
Malva L.
Lavatera L.
Lavatera
Mabberley, D.J. (2008)
Lavatera L.
Malvaceae
Lavatera L.
Lavatera L.
Webb, C.J.; Sykes, W.R.; Garnock-Jones, P.J. (1988)

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Lavatera L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
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editorial
Lavatera and Malva as currently defined are mixed and the epicalyx character used in Webb et al. (1988) doesn’t work to distinguish between them. There are distinct diagnosable groups within Malva but the necessary taxonomic rearrangement needed has not been published yet (April 2020).

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
15 April 2020
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