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Desplatsia
Desplatsia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. Its native range is western and west-central tropical Africa to Uganda.
Microcos
Microcos is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae.
Heliocarpus
Heliocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It was formerly classified in the Tiliaceae.
Pterocymbium
Pterocymbium is a genus in the family Malvaceae: in the subfamily Sterculioideae and previously placed in the Sterculiaceae. In Indonesia, P. tinctorium (Kelumbuk) is a significant timber tree.
Palaua
genus of plants
Christiana
genus of plants
Fuertesimalva
Fuertesimalva is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Argentina. Most species in this genus were originally placed in Urocarpidium.
Lawrencia
Lawrencia is a plant genus in the family Malvaceae. The genus is endemic to Australia.
Tetralix
Tetralix is a genus of flowering plant in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It is native to Cuba. Members of the genus are adapted to serpentine soils, and are nickel hyperaccumulators.
Perrierophytum
Perrierophytum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Corchoropsis
Corchoropsis is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It contains three species native to eastern Asia, which range from Myanmar and Thailand through China to Korea and Japan. Two species, C. burmanica and C. sinensis, are shrubs or small trees, and C. crenata is an annual.
Pityranthe
Pityranthe is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Tarasa
genus of plants
Phragmotheca
Phragmotheca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It includes 11 species native to Panama and western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru).
Radyera
Radyera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae.
Malacothamnus
Malacothamnus (bushmallow) is a genus of shrubs found throughout much of mainland California and on three of the Channel Islands. Outside of California, Malacothamnus is known from the northern half of Baja California and from a few disjunct locations in Arizona and Nevada. Plants of this genus are most commonly found in early-successional, post-burn plant communities. Malacothamnus are currently thought to be most closely related to the Iliamnas of the US interior and the Phymosias of Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Huberodendron
Huberodendron is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It contains the following species: Huberodendron allenii Huberodendron ingens Huberodendron patinoi Huberodendron swietenioides
Ancistrocarpus
Ancistrocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Trichospermum
Trichospermum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae sensu lato or Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae. Species are distributed in Malesia to the tropical Americas.
Briquetia
Briquetia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It includes two species native to South America, ranging from Northern Brazil to Paraguay and northwestern Argentina. Briquetia brasiliensis – northern Brazil Briquetia denudata – eastern, central, and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina (Salta Province)
Patinoa
Patinoa is a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae, native to Panama and South America.
Pentaplaris
Pentaplaris is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It includes three species native to Costa Rica and western South America (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia).
Gynatrix
Gynatrix is a genus of dioecious flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, endemic to south-east Australia.
Rhynchosida
Rhynchosida is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Camptostemon
Camptostemon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Andeimalva
Andeimalva is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Catostemma
Catostemma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Periptera
Periptera is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Vasivaea
Vasivaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Peltaea
Peltaea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. Its native range is southwestern Mexico to tropical South America.
Bernoullia
Bernoullia is a genus of tropical trees in the mallow family, Malvaceae. It was established by English botanist Daniel Oliver in 1873. There are three accepted species, which occur from Mexico to Colombia. Bernoullia flammea Bernoullia jaliscana Bernoullia uribeana
Corynabutilon
Corynabutilon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to southern Chile and Argentina. They are shrubs or small trees.
Hannafordia
Hannafordia is a genus of flowering plants native to Australia
Gaya
genus of plants
Horsfordia
Horsfordia is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family known commonly as velvetmallows. It includes four species which are native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. These are hairy subshrubs which bear light pink, lavender, or red-orange flowers.
Ruizia
Ruizia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It contains 13 species native mostly to the Mascarene Islands (Mauritius and Réunion), and one species native to Madagascar.
Guichenotia
Guichenotia is a genus of 17 species of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae that is endemic to the south west of Western Australia. Plants in the genus Guichenotia are shrubs with simple, linear to oblong leaves with leaf-like stipules at the base of the petiole, the flowers bisexual with three bracteoles at the base of the sepals, and five petal-like sepals, the petals sometimes absent. The fruit is a capsule usually containing 15 seeds.
Robinsonella
Robinsonella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It contains sixteen species of trees occurring from Costa Rica to southern Mexico, eight of which occur in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Modiolastrum
Modiolastrum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Mollia
genus of plants
Spirotheca
Spirotheca is a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae, native to Central and South America.
Batesimalva
Batesimalva is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Malachra
Malachra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, native to the Americas and Africa, and introduced in places in Asia. They lack an epicalyx, an autapomorphy within their tribe Hibisceae, which is known for having epicalyces.
Mansonia
genus of plants
Cienfuegosia
Cienfuegosia is a genus of plants, in the family Malvaceae and placed in the tribe Gossypieae. Species can be found in central and south America, Africa including the Arabian peninsula.
Callianthe
Callianthe is a genus of flowering plants in the tribe Malveae. It is distributed throughout the Neotropics.
Schoutenia
Schoutenia is a genus of flowering plants. It ranges from Indochina through Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and Northern Australia.
Tetrasida
Tetrasida is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. Its native range is Bolivia and Peru.
Sidasodes
Sidasodes is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
Bastardiastrum
Bastardiastrum is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family Malvaceae and is native to Mexico. They are shrubs or subshrubs with viscid (and usually malodorous) stems.
Megistostegium
Megistostegium is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Malvaceae. The species are all endemic to Madagascar. The genus is threatened by livestock grazing, invasive plants and threats to pollinators.
Octolobus
Octolobus is a genus of tropical forest trees in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Sterculioideae (previously placed in the Sterculiaceae). They are found in Central and West Africa and are closely related to the genus Cola. Both share a leaf structure with entire margins, featuring a cuneate base, three main veins, a pulvinus at the petiole tip, weak brochidodromous secondary veins, and multicellular glandular hairs on the epidermis.
Julostylis
Julostylis is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It includes three species native to India and Sri Lanka.
Papuodendron
Papuodendron is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. In 1946 Cyril Tenison White described its first species, Papuodendron lepidotum, which was discovered growing in 1944 in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Its native range is New Guinea.
Nesogordonia
Nesogordonia is a genus of flowering plants. It ranges across tropical Africa, Madagascar, and the Comoro Islands. The majority of species are endemic to Madagascar.
Scleronema
genus of plants
Seringia
Seringia is a genus of about 18 species of plants in the family Malvaceae. Species of Seringia are native to Australia, New Guinea, and Madagascar. They are small shrubs with soft silken leaves. The flowers are purple or mauve and appear in profusion. The calyx is the most conspicuous part of the flower.
Rojasimalva
Rojasimalva is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae. It only contains one known species, Rojasimalva tetrahedralis Fryxell
Androcalva
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Pseudabutilon
Pseudabutilon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Malvaceae. It includes 19 species native to the Americas, ranging from the southwestern United States (Arizona and Texas) through Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and tropical South America to northern Argentina.