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Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso

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Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso (2005)
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Cav.
Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
2005
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Malva multiflora

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multiflora

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Stout annual to biennial up to 2 m high but frequently smaller, often branched from base. Stems densely clothed in stellate hairs when young, becoming ± glabrous and often woody at base when older. Lvs densely clothed in stellate hairs when young, becoming sparsely so when older, suborbicular, cordate to obtuse at base, shallowly 3-5-palmately lobed and crenate or serrate, 1-15 cm diam.; petioles 1-15 cm long; stipules ovate-triangular, 3-6 mm long. Fls in axillary clusters of (1)-2-6-(8); fruiting pedicels 5-25 mm long; epicalyx segments ovate to broadly ovate, united for lower 1/4, c. ⅔-4/5 length of calyx, unchanged at fruiting; calyx shallowly campanulate; calyx teeth ± = tube, ovate, acuminate, densely clothed in stellate hairs, usually ± connivent at fruiting; petals lilac or pink with darker veins, (8)-10-18 mm long. Mericarps 8-10 per fr., glabrous, ± smooth or faintly ribbed on back and with a single low longitudinal rib; edges usually rounded, rarely ± sharply angled.

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Lavatera cretica L.
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malope multiflora Cav.
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malva linnaei M.F.Ray
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso
Malva pseudolavatera Webb & Berthel.
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso

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New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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15 April 2020
15 April 2020
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