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Malvaviscus
Malvaviscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. Common names for species in this genus include Turk's cap mallow, wax mallow, sleeping hibiscus, and mazapan. It belongs to a group of genera that differ from the closely related Hibiscus in possessing a fruit divided into 5 separate parts (a schizocarp), and having a style surmounted by 10, rather than 5, capitate or capitellate stigmas. Among those genera Malvaviscus is distinguished by having...
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Turk's cap
speciesMalvaviscus arboreus
Sleeping Hibiscus
speciesMalvaviscus penduliflorus
Malvaviscus palmanus
speciesMalvaviscus palmanus
Malvaviscus concinnus
speciesMalvaviscus concinnus
Malvaviscus achanioides
speciesMalvaviscus achanioides
Malvaviscus lanceolatus
speciesMalvaviscus lanceolatus
Malvaviscus oaxacanus
speciesMalvaviscus oaxacanus
Malvaviscus urticifolius
speciesMalvaviscus urticifolius
Malvaviscus williamsii
speciesMalvaviscus williamsii
Malvaviscus sangeetae
speciesMalvaviscus sangeetae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 120943.