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|accepted_name=Batesimalva
|accepted_authority=Fryxell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bol. Soc. Bot. México
|place=35: 25, fig. 1. 1975
|year=1975
}}
|common_names=Bates’s mallow
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Batesimalva
|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>[[Batesimalva]]</div></div>
|etymology=For David M. Bates, b. 1935 American botanist, and Latin malva, mallow
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 217
|treatment_page=page 238
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[herbs]. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, hairy, not viscid. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules persistent, filiform, sometimes absent; blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, not dissected or parted, base cordate, margins coarsely crenate. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, solitary flowers or 2–4-flowered clusters; involucel absent. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, ca. 1/2-divided, shorter than mature fruit, lobes unribbed, lanceolate to ovate; corolla blue-violet [bluish lavender, white, or yellow]; staminal column included; style 8–10[–16]-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect or semipendent, inflated, disciform, prominently lobed, papery, minutely tomentose; mericarps 8–10[–16], 2-celled, without dorsal spur, apex rounded, proximal cell indehiscent, enclosing 1 seed (each seed covered by endoglossum), distal cell dehiscent, empty (by ovule abortion), unwinged. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, subglabrous to sparsely hairy. <b>x</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico;n South America (w Venezuela).
|discussion=<p>Species 5 (1 in the flora).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Batesimalva
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Fryxell
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=Tex.;n Mexico;n South America (w Venezuela).
|reference=None
|publication title=Bol. Soc. Bot. México
|publication year=1975
|special status=Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Batesimalva
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