Mallows, Rock Roses, and Allies
Malvales
The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within nine families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots.
The plants are mostly shrubs and trees; most of its families have a cosmopolitan distribution in the tropics and subtropics, with limited expansion into temperate regions. An interesting distribution occurs in Madagascar, where three endemic families of Malvales (Sphaerosepalaceae, Sarcolaenaceae and Diegodendraceae) occur.
10 branches of this order, most-observed first
Mallow and Hibiscus Family
familyMalvaceae
rock-rose family
familyCistaceae
Stringbarks
familyThymelaeaceae
achiote family
familyBixaceae
muntingia family
familyMuntingiaceae
Dipterocarp Family
familyDipterocarpaceae
vampirecup family
familyCytinaceae
neurada family
familyNeuradaceae
sarcolaena family
familySarcolaenaceae
rhopalocarpus family
familySphaerosepalaceae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Malvales in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48796.