Malvaceae

1. Malvaceae Mallow Family ca. 200 genera />2300 species Hisbiscus (rose mallow) Abutilon (Indian mallow) Sphaeralcea (globemallow) Malvastrum Sida Anoda Gossypium (cotton) Malvaceae

2. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

3. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

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5. Malvaceae

6. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

7. Connate sepals Stellate hairs Malvaceae

8. Malvaceae

9. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

10. Hibiscus sp. Epicalyx Malvaceae

11. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

12. Parted stigma Stamens are monadelphous (united by filaments and forming a tube around gynoecium) Epicalyx = involucre that resembles outer calyx Malvaceae

13. Life Form Trees, shrubs, lianas or herbs. Flowers bisexual and regular with epicalyx. Leaves usually alternate, simple with palmate veination and sometimes lobes; stellate or peltate trichomes. Five to numerous stamens fused to each other around the style and forming a tube (monodelphous). Usually five carpels fused into superior ovary that split into wedges in fruit. Five fused sepals and five free petals. Petals are convolute (corkscrewed) in bud. Stems and Leaves Perianth Flowers and Inflorescence Reproductive Structures Fruit Five-locular capsule/schizocarp/berry. Malvaceae

14. Spharalcea sp. Malvaceae

15. S. laxa S. fendleri Malvaceae