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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Malvella
|accepted_authority=Jaubert & Spach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ill. Pl. Orient.
|place=5: 47, plate 444. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|common_names=Alkali mallow
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Disella
|authority=Greene
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malvella
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malvaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malvella]]</div></div>
|etymology=generic name Malva and Latin -ella, diminutive
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 216, 217, 218
|treatment_page=page 301
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem growth form or orientation;stem coating"><b>Stems </b>prostrate, with stellate and lepidote pubescence, not viscid.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf arrangement;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>alternate and distichous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="stipule duration;stipule shape;stipule some measurement">stipules persistent, subulate, 3–5 mm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade architecture or shape;blade shape;blade shape;blade shape;base architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape;surface arrangement or shape;surface pubescence">blade asymmetric basally, [± flabellate], reniform, or ovate to triangular, not dissected or parted, base asymmetric, margins dentate, serrate, or entire, surfaces stellate or lepidote.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="axillary flower architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary solitary flowers;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="involucel presence;involucel presence;bractlet quantity;bractlet duration;bractlet duration;bractlet fusion">involucel present or absent, bractlets 0–3, persistent or caducous, distinct.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="calyx size;calyx shape;lobe architecture;lobe shape;lobe shape;lobe arrangement or shape;lobe pubescence"><b>Flowers:</b> calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes unribbed, ovate or cordate, stellate or lepidote;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration;corolla coloration">corolla whitish or pale-yellow, sometimes with pink flush or fading pale rose;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="staminal column position">staminal column included;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="style architecture">style 7–10-branched;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="stigma architecture or shape">stigmas capitate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="fruits schizocarp orientation;fruits schizocarp shape;fruits schizocarp shape;fruits schizocarp texture;fruits schizocarp pubescence"><b>Fruits </b>schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate, not indurate, minutely hairy;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="mericarp quantity;mericarp architecture;mericarp shape;mericarp pubescence;lateral wall duration;lateral wall dehiscence">mericarps 7–10, 1-celled, dorsally rounded, essentially unornamented, lateral walls persistent, essentially indehiscent.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>1 per mericarp, glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="seed quantity;seed pubescence;x chromosome quantity">x = probably 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America (Peru to Uruguay);Europe;Asia (Asia Minor)
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades wider than long, ± reniform, apex obtuse or subacute, indument predominantly stellate; involucellar bractlets usually 3, sometimes 0; calyx lobes ovate, bases not overlapping.
|[[Malvella leprosa|Malvella leprosa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades longer than wide, ovate to triangular, apex acute, indument ± silvery-lepidote; involucellar bractlets usually 0, rarely present; calyx lobes ± cordate, bases plicate-overlapping
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades ± triangular, length 1–2(–3) times width, margins irregularly dentate, surfaces often with at least some stellate hairs mixed with silvery scales.
|[[Malvella lepidota|Malvella lepidota]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades narrowly triangular, length 3–5(–6) times width, margins hastate-toothed at base, surfaces silvery-lepidote.
|[[Malvella sagittifolia|Malvella sagittifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malvella
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Jaubert & Spach
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Disella
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America (Peru to Uruguay);Europe;Asia (Asia Minor)
|reference=None
|publication title=Ill. Pl. Orient.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V6/V6_545.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malvella
|axillary flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|base architecture or shape=asymmetric
|blade architecture or shape=asymmetric
|blade shape=ovate;triangular not dissected or parted
|bractlet duration=caducous;persistent
|bractlet fusion=distinct
|bractlet quantity=0;3
|calyx shape=not inflated
|calyx size=not accrescent
|corolla coloration=rose;fading pale;pale-yellow;whitish
|fruits schizocarp orientation=erect
|fruits schizocarp pubescence=hairy
|fruits schizocarp shape=oblate;not inflated
|fruits schizocarp texture=not indurate
|involucel presence=absent;absent
|lateral wall dehiscence=indehiscent
|lateral wall duration=persistent
|leaf arrangement=distichous;alternate
|lobe architecture=unribbed
|lobe arrangement or shape=stellate
|lobe pubescence=lepidote
|lobe shape=cordate;ovate
|margin architecture or shape=entire;serrate;dentate
|mericarp architecture=1-celled
|mericarp pubescence=unornamented
|mericarp quantity=7;10
|mericarp shape=rounded
|seed pubescence=glabrous
|seed quantity=1
|staminal column position=included
|stem coating=not viscid
|stem growth form or orientation=prostrate
|stigma architecture or shape=capitate
|stipule duration=persistent
|stipule shape=subulate
|stipule some measurement=3mm;5mm
|style architecture=7-10-branched
|surface arrangement or shape=stellate
|surface pubescence=lepidote
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=16
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