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|accepted_name=Malva pseudolavatera
|accepted_authority=Webb & Berthelot
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Nat. Îles Canaries
|place=3(2,1): 29. 1836
|year=1836
}}
|common_names=Cretan or smaller tree mallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lavatera cretica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=2: 691. 1753,
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malva;Malva pseudolavatera
|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>[[Malva]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malva pseudolavatera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 287
|treatment_page=page 291
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, biennial, or perennial, 1–3 m, sparsely stellate-hairy. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, rarely prostrate, base not woody. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules deciduous, broadly lanceolate to ovate, 4–4.5 × 2 mm, papery, sparsely puberulent, ciliate, hairs simple; petioles of proximal leaves to 3.5 times as long as blade, usually equaling blade on distal portion of stems, stellate-hairy to glabrate; blade suborbiculate, 4–10 × 4–10 cm, base cordate, surfaces sparsely stellate-hairy, 3–4 mm, equaling to shorter than calyx, margins entire, apex obtuse, surfaces stellate-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx (4–)7–8 mm, to 11 mm in fruit, densely soft stellate-hairy; petals pale pink to white, sometimes drying bluish, usually with 3 darker veins, 10–16 mm, length 2 1/2–4 times calyx; staminal column 5 mm, densely stellate-hairy; style 7–10-branched; stigmas 7–10 (same number as locules). <b>Schizocarps</b> 9–12 mm diam., style base often expanded and disclike; mericarps 7–10, 4 × 4 mm, margins rounded, smooth, usually cross-ridged, surfaces usually glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> brown, 2.5–2.7 mm. <b>2n</b> = 44, 112.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mostly Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, coastal bluffs, dunes
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Europe;w Asia;n Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also in South America (Ecuador);s Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|discussion=<p><i>Malva pseudolavatera</i> is naturalized in California along the coast and apparently is spreading. The name <i>M. multiflora</i> (Cavanilles) Soldano, Bamfi & Golasso (based on Malope multiflora Cavanilles) has been proposed as the correct name.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malva pseudolavatera
|authority=Webb & Berthelot
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Lavatera cretica
|family=Malvaceae
|phenology=Flowering mostly Apr–Jun.
|habitat=Disturbed areas, coastal bluffs, dunes
|elevation=0–800 m
|distribution=Calif.;Europe;w Asia;n Africa;Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also in South America (Ecuador);s Africa;Pacific Islands (New Zealand);Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Nat. Îles Canaries
|publication year=1836
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_530.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malva
|species=Malva pseudolavatera
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