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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple and palmately lobed or digitately compound. Flowers usually solitary and axillary, but often forming terminal inflorescences by reduction of the upper leaves, yellow with a dark centre or red, pink, purplish or white. Epicalyx of 5-20 bracts, rarely 0. Calyx with 5 lobes or (rarely) 5-10 teeth. Ovary 4-5-locular; each loculus with 3-many ovules. Style 5-branched. Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule. Derivation of name: Greek name for the marsh mallow Worldwide: c.300 species occurring in warm temperate and tropical areas of the world Malawi: 28 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acetosella Welw. ex Hiern | Image | |
| allenii Sprague & Hutch. | C | Description, Image |
| articulatus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| burtt-davyi Dunkley[NrEnd] | S | Description, Image |
| caesius Garcke | S | Description, Image |
| cannabinus L. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| debeerstii De Wild. & T. Durand | N | |
| diversifolius Jacq. subsp. rivularis (Bremek. & Oberm.) Exell | C,S | Description, Image |
| fuscus Garcke | N,S | |
| jacksonianus Exell | C,S | |
| lobatus (Murray) Kuntze | N,S | Description, Image |
| ludwigii Eckl. & Zeyh. | N,C | Description, Image |
| micranthus L.f. | N | Description, Image |
| migeodii Exell | N | Description, Image |
| mutatus N.E.Br. | S | Description, Image |
| nigricaulis Baker | C | Description, Image |
| nyikensis Sprague | N | |
| ovalifolius (Forssk.) Vahl | N,S | Description, Image |
| panduriformis Burm. f. | C,S | Description, Image |
| physaloides Guill. & Perr. | N,S | Description, Image |
| praeteritus R.A. Dyer | S | Description, Image |
| rhodanthus Gürke | N,C | Description, Image |
| rupicola Exell[NrEnd] | ? | |
| sabdariffa L. | C,S | |
| shirensis Sprague & Hutch. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| sidiformis Baill. | N,C | Description, Image |
| surattensis L. | S | Description, Image |
| vitifolius L. subsp. vitifolius | N,C,S | Description, Image |
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