Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
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📚 Overview
Description
Herbs to 50 cm tall; stem with appressed stellate hairs. Leaves 2-8 x 1-3 cm, ovate or lanceolate, unlobed or shallowly 3-lobed, broadly rounded to cuneate at base, margins dentate to nearly serrate, acute to acuminate at apex, 3-5-nerved at base, petioles 2-3 cm long, stellate-hairy; stipules 3-5 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate, early deciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary, often clustered; pedicels slender, 5-8 mm long. Involucellar bracts shorter than calyx, 4-6 x 7-10 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, strigose-hairy. Calyx 4-6 mm long in flower, and 8-12 mm long in fruit; lobes 5, 3-4 x 2-4 mm, deltoid, acuminate, fused to the middle, hirsute. Corolla 1-1.5 cm in diam., widely campanulate, pale yellow; petals 6-8 x 4-5 mm, obliquely obovate, exceeding the calyx lobes. Staminal column 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Schizocarps 5-6 mm diameter, enclosed within the calyx; mericarps 10 -12, 3-4 x 3-4 mm, setose with a single conspicuous apical and two dorsal cusps.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Habit: Woody Herb
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Degraded moist deciduous forest and wastelands
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Degraded moist deciduous forests and wastelands
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Maharashtra: Kolhapur
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Coorg, Hassan, Mysore
Kerala: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
References
- Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke, Bonplandia 5: 295. 1857; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 88(64). 1915; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 62. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 81. 1990; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 277. 1993; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 31. 1995; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 219. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 31. 1998; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 124. 2009; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 85. 2005; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 385. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 151. 2009.
- Malva tricuspidata R.Br. ex Ait.f., Hort. Kew (ed. 2) 4: 210. 1812.
- Malvastrum tricuspidatum (R.Br. ex Ait.f.) A. Gray, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3: 16. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 321. 1874.
- Malva coromandeliana L., Sp. Pl. 687. 1753.
- Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
Information Listing > References
- Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke, Bonplandia 5: 295. 1857; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 88(64). 1915; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 62. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 81. 1990; T.K. Paul in B.D. Sharma & Sanjappa, Fl. India 3: 277. 1993; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 31. 1995; Sivar. & Pradeep, Malvac. Southern Peninsular India 219. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 31. 1998; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 124. 2009; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 85. 2005; M. Mohanan & A.V.N. Rao in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 385. 2005; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 151. 2009.
- Malva tricuspidata R.Br. ex Ait.f., Hort. Kew (ed. 2) 4: 210. 1812.
- Malvastrum tricuspidatum (R.Br. ex Ait.f.) A. Gray, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3: 16. 1852; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 321. 1874.
- Malva coromandeliana L., Sp. Pl. 687. 1753.
- Flora of Karnataka, Sharma B. D, 1984, Biodiversity Documentation for Kerala Part 6: Flowering Plants, N. Sasidharan, 2004, Flora of Kolhapur District, Yadav S. R & Sardesai M. M, 2002
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Malvales Juss. |
| Family | Malvaceae Juss. |
| Genus | Malvastrum A. Gray |
| Species | Malvastrum coromandelianum |
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