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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Malvella
|accepted_authority=Jaubert & Spach
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ill. Pl. Orient.
|place=5: 47, plate 444. 1855
|year=1855
}}
|common_names=Alkali mallow
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Disella
|authority=Greene
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Malvaceae;Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae;Malvella
|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>[[Malvella]]</div></div>
|etymology=generic name Malva and Latin -ella, diminutive
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=page 215, 216, 217, 218
|treatment_page=page 301
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial. <b>Stems</b> prostrate, with stellate and lepidote pubescence, not viscid. <b>Leaves</b> alternate and distichous; stipules persistent, subulate, 3–5 mm; blade asymmetric basally, [± flabellate], reniform, or ovate to triangular, not dissected or parted, base asymmetric, margins dentate, serrate, or entire, surfaces stellate or lepidote. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary solitary flowers; involucel present or absent, bractlets 0–3, persistent or caducous, distinct. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx not accrescent, not inflated, lobes unribbed, ovate or cordate, stellate or lepidote; corolla whitish or pale yellow, sometimes with pink flush or fading pale rose; staminal column included; style 7–10-branched; stigmas capitate. <b>Fruits</b> schizocarps, erect, not inflated, oblate, not indurate, minutely hairy; mericarps 7–10, 1-celled, dorsally rounded, essentially unornamented, lateral walls persistent, essentially indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1 per mericarp, glabrous. <b>x</b> = probably 16.</span><!--

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|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America (Peru to Uruguay);Europe;Asia (Asia Minor).
|discussion=<p>Species 4 (3 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades wider than long, ± reniform, apex obtuse or subacute, indument predominantly stellate; involucellar bractlets usually 3, sometimes 0; calyx lobes ovate, bases not overlapping.
|[[Malvella leprosa|Malvella leprosa]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades longer than wide, ovate to triangular, apex acute, indument ± silvery-lepidote; involucellar bractlets usually 0, rarely present; calyx lobes ± cordate, bases plicate-overlapping
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades ± triangular, length 1–2(–3) times width, margins irregularly dentate, surfaces often with at least some stellate hairs mixed with silvery scales.
|[[Malvella lepidota|Malvella lepidota]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Leaf blades narrowly triangular, length 3–5(–6) times width, margins hastate-toothed at base, surfaces silvery-lepidote.
|[[Malvella sagittifolia|Malvella sagittifolia]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malvella
|author=Paul A. Fryxell†;Steven R. Hill
|authority=Jaubert & Spach
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=Disella
|basionyms=
|family=Malvaceae
|distribution=United States;Mexico;South America (Peru to Uruguay);Europe;Asia (Asia Minor).
|reference=None
|publication title=Ill. Pl. Orient.
|publication year=1855
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_545.xml
|subfamily=Malvaceae subfam. Malvoideae
|genus=Malvella
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