The family malvaceae comprises of an accepted 246 genera of over 4000 species that occur as herbaceous, shrubs, and less often trees. Flowers are actinomorphic and without subtending bracts ebracteate. Here identifying characteristics of malvaceae family along with essential figures and one suitable example. The native species are of minor economic importance. Members of the family often feature showy fivepetaled flowers with an epicalyx fused bracts below the sepals. Abstract the mulberry family moraceae comprises 37 genera and approximately 1,100 species distributed throughout tropical and temperate regions worldwide. Sub families and species of fabaceae family also discussed here. Malvaceae is a family which shows characteristic features like, monoadelphous condition, twisted aestivation of petals, monothecous anthers link to the onlin. Many species of the family are known to be cultivated as ornamental plants such as the mallow the genus malva of plants such as the musk, tree and marsh mallows and hibiscus or for natural fibers such as cotton the genus gossypium or jute genus. The malvaceae info web site provides information, both botanical and horticultural, on the angiosperm family malvaceae sensu apg which includes the traditional bombacaceae and much of the traditional sterculiaceae byttneriaceae and tiliaceae, together with a little material on related families in the order malvales and of general botanical content. Sida asiatica l kanski, indian mallow, country mallow. Classification for kingdom plantae down to family malvaceae. It is a globally distributed family with primary concentrations of genera in the tropical and subtropical regions. Plants of this family are herbs, shrubs, vines or climbing by twining or tendrils.
If you import data to an existing family file, its important to merge duplicates. Sharma, in genetic improvement of vegetable crops, 1993. The common mallow is part of the large family of malvaceae plants that include cotton, okra and hibiscus. In pakistan it is represented by 19 genera with 94 specific and infraspecific taxa. Species of malvaceae contained within the plant list belong to 236 plant genera. If you have seen a hollyhock or hibiscus flower, then you can recognize the mallow family. Malvaceae have an extensive pollen fossil record and a majority of the subfamilies are represented in the paleocene or eocene. About the classification report about the classification download. The traditional malvaceae coincides exactly with one of the major clades. Kenaf are commercially important for fibre, and hibiscus rosasinensis l. The family malvaceae to which cultivated okra belongs is one of the recalcitrant species for plant regeneration through tissue culture.
Leaves are dark green to red, alternate, glabrous, long. Malvaceae mallow family hawaiian plants and tropical. Malvaceae is a dicotyledonous family comprising about 82 genera and 1500 species, distributed almost throughout the world and particularly abundant in trpics. Malvaceae, the hibiscus, or mallow, family order malvales containing some 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Biological characteristics, nutritional and medicinal. Morphology of flowering plants malvaceae family part. Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity.
Wild species may be smaller, but you will know you have a mallow when you find a funnelshaped flower with 5 separate petals and a distinctive column of stamens surrounding the pistil. The plants are abundantly seen in the tropics and a few are natives of the temperate regions of the old world. Taxonomy and traditional medicine practices on malvaceae. Malvaceae, raipur, gossypium the present work focuses on study of plants of one of angiosperm family malvaceae, also known as mallow family. The only possible problem is the relationship with the bombacaceae, which also has primarily 1loculed anthers, and some authorities have suggested that the bombacaceae should be included within the malvaceae. With practice and increasing familiarity with the family, it is usually possible to assign an unknown grass to a tribe without undue difficulty. Most programs can identify potential matches and merge them automatically or manually. The plant list includes 14,258 scientific plant names of species rank for the family malvaceae.
The lily family, liliaceae, consists of about 254 genera and about 4075 known species of flowering plants within the order liliales. In this paper, we will call the species by its common name roselle. A list of all accepted names in malvaceae is available in csv format. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics.
It is not a part of the apg, apg ii and apg iii classifications, being sunk in malvaceae but has an extensive historical record of use all through its existence the family has had a very lively history, with various authors taking very different views on what should be part of this family. Malvaceae mallow family herbs, shrubs and rarely trees. Botanic description roselle belongs to malvaceae family. Flowers have five petals in a tube and look like little windmills a rotate corolla. According to hutchinson this is the thirty third order of the phylum angiospermae, subphylum dicotyledones and division lignosae. Identifying characteristics of malvaceae family qs study. Taxonomy and traditional medicine practices on the family malvaceae growing throughout the rajshahi, bangladesh was carried out during july 2008 to june 2009. Malvaceaemallow family slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. Fabaceae characteristics features of fabaceae economic. Thus, the malvaceae can be expanded to include all of these families so as to compose a monophyletic group. Tilia tilioideae fossil pollen and leaves are present in western north american temperate forests where it is now absent from the mid eocene s. Polypetalae, thalamiflorae, malvales following are the important characters of malvaceae.
Seed pod characteristics are imoportant in separating genera in the family. Hibiscus or mallow family okra, roselle, cotton, hibiscus. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Complete information on the characteristics of the family. In many cases the new family limits of the angiosperm phylogeny group see a. Plants in the worldwide, but mainly warm region mallow family malvaceae are annual and perennial herbs, shrubs, and trees with simple, alternate, petioled leaves, flowers with 5 petals, 5 sepals, a superior ovary, and a distinctive central column of stamen filaments, and. Stellate hairs on the young parts, mucilaginous juice present, leaves alternate, stipulate, multicostate reticulate. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. The same person might appear twice, with one record linked to his ancestors and one linked to his descendants. Common characteristics include large flowers with parts arranged in threes. Perianth is of 4 sepals and 4 petals in a cruciform crosslike arrangement. The mallow family malvaceae contains some 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees distributed nearly worldwide.
Thus, the malvaceae can be expanded to include all of these families so as to compose a. Usually shrub and tender part of the plant contains a lubricating substance called mucilage ii leaf. The tribe is therefore taken as the primary division here. The geraniaceae is a family of herbaceous plants or. A cosmopolitan family, though primarily tropical and subtropical. This order consists of a single family the malvaceae. Root contains root nodules that have nitrogen fixing bacteria rhizobium and frequently non protein amino acids are found. Moraceae exhibit a complex array of inflorescence architectures, breeding systems, and pollination syndromes, which forms the basis of traditional taxonomic classification. Perhaps the earliest recognition of malvaceae as a distinct group of plants was by adrianus van royen in his flora leydensis 1749, who, in an essay at a natural classification of plants divided them into 20 classes, 6 of which are recognisable as modern families. Another major circumscription, malvaceae sensu lato, has been more recently defined on the basis that molecular techniques have shown the commonly recognised families bombacaceae, tiliaceae, and sterculiaceae, which have always been considered closely allied to malvaceae s.
One of these is columniferae, which in his work incorporates malvaceae s. Leaves alternate, simple, palmately veined with stipules flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, often subtended by bracteoles that form an epicalyx, filaments united into a tube or column monadelphous, infl. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. In india, there are 22 genera and about 110 species.
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