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|accepted_name=Lavatera
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 690. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 308. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Rose mallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Olbia
|authority=Medikus
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stegia de
|authority=Candolle
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Lavatera
|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>[[Lavatera]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Lavater family, 17th-century physicians and naturalists of Zurich
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 216, 219, 277, 286, 288
|treatment_page=page 276
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> subshrubs, or shrubs, perennial or annual [biennial], stellate-hairy or glabrate. <b>Stems</b> erect. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules early-deciduous, narrowly triangular, lanceolate, oblanceolate, or linear; blade lanceolate or ovate to orbiculate, narrower above, base rounded to wide-cuneate, unlobed or palmately 3–7-lobed, margins crenate or dentate or nearly entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary solitary flowers, [fascicles], or terminal racemes; involucel present, bractlets persistent, 3, connate ca. 1/2 toward base, cupuliform. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobed triangular to ovate, not ribbed; corolla broadly trumpet-shaped to nearly rotate, rose-pink, white, or purple, usually with darker purplish veins; staminal column included; ovary [9–]12–22[–40]-carpellate; ovules 1 per cell; style [9–]12–22[–40]-branched (same number as locules); stigmas introrsely decurrent, filiform. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, flattened-globose, discoid, somewhat indurate, persistent style base swollen, conic or disc-shaped; mericarps [9–]12–22[–40], drying tan or brown, 1-celled, elliptic in cross section, edges rounded, walls readily separating from seed, without dorsal spur, not beaked, sometimes slightly ridged or keeled, apex rounded, glabrous or hairy, indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, glabrous. <b>x</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Europe (Mediterranean regions);sw Asia (to Kashmir);Africa (Ethiopia);Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also widely.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Lavatera</i> has traditionally been distinguished from <i>Malva</i> by its cuplike, basally fused involucellar bractlets. Based on molecular evidence, <i>Lavatera</i> and <i>Malva</i> are nearly indistinguishable, and while still accepted here based upon different criteria, <i>Lavatera</i> taxa eventually may be combined with <i>Malva</i>. <i>Lavatera</i> arborea Linnaeus, L. assurgentiflora Kellogg, and L. cretica Linnaeus of previous treatments have been transferred to <i>Malva</i>, and some epithet changes were necessary.</p><!--
--><p><i>Lavatera</i> cachemiriana Cambessèdes is commonly cultivated and may escape; it is similar to <i>L. thuringiaca</i> but has denser, long-stellate indument and the involucellar bractlets are two-thirds as long as the calyx, are broadly ovate with acute apices, fused at base into a cup about 1 cm long, barely appressed to the calyx, and are accrescent in fruit.</p><!--
--><p>Species ca. 12–25 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ray1995a
|text=Ray, M. F. 1995. Systematics of Lavatera and Malva (Malvaceae, Malveae)—A new perspective. Pl. Syst. Evol. 198: 29–53.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Annual herbs, 0.5–1.4 m; petals rose-pink or white, bases usually overlapping and obscuring calyx surface.
|[[Lavatera trimestris|Lavatera trimestris]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Perennial herbs or subshrubs, or shrubs, usually 1–2 m; petals pale purplish pink or darker purple-violet, bases not overlapping, calyx surface clearly visible between
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Subshrubs or shrubs; stems ± woody at base; inflorescences solitary flowers, sometimes racemelike, subsessile, pedicels 0.2–0.7 cm; plants usually hispid throughout.
|[[Lavatera olbia|Lavatera olbia]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Herbs; inflorescences solitary flowers, sometimes racemelike but not congested, pedicellate, pedicels 2–5 cm; plants usually puberulent to tomentose throughout.
|[[Lavatera thuringiaca|Lavatera thuringiaca]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Lavatera
|author=Steven R. Hill
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Olbia;Stegia de
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=s Europe (Mediterranean regions);sw Asia (to Kashmir);Africa (Ethiopia);Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands);introduced also widely.
|introduced=true
|reference=ray1995a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_504.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Lavatera
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