If you import data to an existing family file, its important to merge duplicates. The same person might appear twice, with one record linked to his ancestors and one linked to his descendants. Malvaceae the mallow family 250 genera 4,200 species distribution. Complete information on the characteristics of the family. In india, there are 22 genera and about 110 species. 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. In pakistan it is represented by 19 genera with 94 specific and infraspecific taxa. 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.
Most programs can identify potential matches and merge them automatically or manually. The plants are abundantly seen in the tropics and a few are natives of the temperate regions of the old world. 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. Flowers have five petals in a tube and look like little windmills a rotate corolla. The atlas of florida plants provides a source of information for the distribution of plants within the state and taxonomic information. Members of the family often feature showy fivepetaled flowers with an epicalyx fused bracts below the sepals. Malvaceae, the hibiscus, or mallow, family order malvales containing some 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. According to hutchinson this is the thirty third order of the phylum angiospermae, subphylum dicotyledones and division lignosae.
Plants in this family have evolved with a fair amount of morphological diversity despite genetic similarity. It is a globally distributed family with primary concentrations of genera in the tropical and subtropical regions. Common characteristics include large flowers with parts arranged in threes. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. One of these is columniferae, which in his work incorporates malvaceae s. The lily family, liliaceae, consists of about 254 genera and about 4075 known species of flowering plants within the order liliales. The common mallow is part of the large family of malvaceae plants that include cotton, okra and hibiscus. In many cases the new family limits of the angiosperm phylogeny group see a. Species of malvaceae contained within the plant list belong to 236 plant genera. 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. With practice and increasing familiarity with the family, it is usually possible to assign an unknown grass to a tribe without undue difficulty. The native species are of minor economic importance. Malvaceae mallow family hawaiian plants and tropical. Malvaceaemallow family slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising.
Leaves are dark green to red, alternate, glabrous, long. Fabaceae characteristics features of fabaceae economic. Morphological evolution in the mulberry family moraceae. Plants of this family are herbs, shrubs, vines or climbing by twining or tendrils. 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. Tilia tilioideae fossil pollen and leaves are present in western north american temperate forests where it is now absent from the mid eocene s. Here identifying characteristics of malvaceae family along with essential figures and one suitable example. A cosmopolitan family, though primarily tropical and subtropical. In this paper, we will call the species by its common name roselle. The geraniaceae is a family of herbaceous plants or.
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. Sharma, in genetic improvement of vegetable crops, 1993. It is an edible plant that has been used for medicinal care as well as food. Thus, the malvaceae can be expanded to include all of these families so as to compose a. The mallow family malvaceae contains some 243 genera and at least 4,225 species of herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees distributed nearly worldwide. Abstract the mulberry family moraceae comprises 37 genera and approximately 1,100 species distributed throughout tropical and temperate regions worldwide. 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.
The family malvaceae comprises of an accepted 246 genera of over 4000 species that occur as herbaceous, shrubs, and less often trees. 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. Thus, the malvaceae can be expanded to include all of these families so as to compose a monophyletic group. The family malvaceae to which cultivated okra belongs is one of the recalcitrant species for plant regeneration through tissue culture. Polypetalae, thalamiflorae, malvales following are the important characters of malvaceae. A list of all accepted names in malvaceae is available in csv format. Malvaceae is a dicotyledonous family comprising about 82 genera and 1500 species, distributed almost throughout the world and particularly abundant in trpics. Moraceae exhibit a complex array of inflorescence architectures, breeding systems, and pollination syndromes, which forms the basis of traditional taxonomic classification. Malvaceae mallow family herbs, shrubs and rarely trees. The traditional malvaceae coincides exactly with one of the major clades. Identifying characteristics of malvaceae family qs study. Stellate hairs on the young parts, mucilaginous juice present, leaves alternate, stipulate, multicostate reticulate. Magnolioideae, of which magnolia is the bestknown genus, and liriodendroidae, a monogeneric subfamily, of. The plant list includes 14,258 scientific plant names of species rank for the family malvaceae.
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. Sida asiatica l kanski, indian mallow, country mallow. Classification for kingdom plantae down to family malvaceae. Morphology of flowering plants malvaceae family part. Botanic description roselle belongs to malvaceae family. Perianth is of 4 sepals and 4 petals in a cruciform crosslike arrangement.
The tribe is therefore taken as the primary division here. Flowers are actinomorphic and without subtending bracts ebracteate. The website also provides access to a database and images of herbarium specimens found at the university of south florida and other herbaria. Biological characteristics, nutritional and medicinal. Hibiscus or mallow family okra, roselle, cotton, hibiscus. They are monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous, often bulbous geophytes. Kenaf are commercially important for fibre, and hibiscus rosasinensis l. About the classification report about the classification download. Taxonomy and traditional medicine practices on the family malvaceae growing throughout the rajshahi, bangladesh was carried out during july 2008 to june 2009. Seed pod characteristics are imoportant in separating genera in the family. Taxonomy and traditional medicine practices on malvaceae.
This order consists of a single family the malvaceae. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Root contains root nodules that have nitrogen fixing bacteria rhizobium and frequently non protein amino acids are found. If you have seen a hollyhock or hibiscus flower, then you can recognize the mallow family. 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. Malvaceae, raipur, gossypium the present work focuses on study of plants of one of angiosperm family malvaceae, also known as mallow family. 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.
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