Malva multiflora

(Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso · species

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Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Malva

At a glance

Occurrence records9 716

Data sources9

Biological traits53

DNA specimens0

eDNA detections6

Sources9 archives

Databases and archives Malva multiflora's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation6 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility9 716 records↗

ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI6 eDNA detections↗

LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗

GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗

CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗

PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype

GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗

On this page6 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements5 literature sources53 traits

Chemical compositionLOTUS1 compounds

Occurrence & distributionGBIF9 716 records

Environmental DNA1 datasets · 3 countries6 detections

Genome at a glanceCCDB2n = 112

01Narrative

Malva multiflora (syn. Lavatera cretica) is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Cornish mallow and Cretan hollyhock. It is native to western Europe, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Basin, and it is naturalized in areas with a Mediterranean climate, such as parts of Australia, South Africa, and California. This is an annual or biennial herb growing a tough, somewhat hairy stem to a maximum height between 1 and 3 meters. The leaves are multilobed with flat or wavy edges, slightly hairy, and up to 10 centimeters long. The plant bears small pink or light purple flowers with petals just over a centimeter long. The fruit is disc-shaped with 7 to 10 segments. Leaf laminas of Malva multiflora can track solar position throughout the day and turn to face the sunrise, behavior that anticipates the future, despite lacking a central nervous system.https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/life-without-brains-smart-slime-molds-plants-jellyfish-osr-science

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesGIFTAusTraitsLEDATRYWCVP

Size & morphology14

Fruit length2.75 mm

Fruit width8.5 mm

Leaf length55 mm

Leaf length max200 mm

Leaf width50 mm

⚠ sources differ — AusTraits: 50 mm · GIFT: 75 mm

Leaf width max200 mm

Leaf width min75 mm

Petiole length12 cm

Plant height0.875 m

⚠ sources differ — GIFT: 0.875 m · AusTraits: 1.5 m · LEDA: 0.75 m · TRY: 0.8 m

Plant height max2 m

Plant height min0.2 m

Seed mass7.08 mg

⚠ sources differ — TRY: 7.08 mg · LEDA: 6.34 mg · GIFT: 6.78 mg

Seed mass max7.69 mg

Seed mass min6.33 mg

Life cycle & reproduction16

DeciduousnessN

⚠ sources differ — TRY: N · GIFT: deciduous

Dispersal typeunspecialized

Flower colourpink

Flower length max25 mm

Flower length min12 mm

Flowering endJul

Flowering startFeb

Life formannual or biennial

Life spanperennial

⚠ sources differ — TRY: perennial · AusTraits: annual biennial · GIFT: annual

Lifespan years2 years

Pollination modebiotic

Pollination syndromeinsect

Raunkiær life formtherophyte

Reproduction asexualabsent

Self fertilizationabsent

Sex typehermaphrodite

Diet & foraging1

Parasiteindependent

Habitat & environment14

Aquaticterrestrial

Climatetemperate

Climberself-supporting

Elevation max800 m

Elevation min0 m

Epiphyteterrestrial

Fruit typemericarp

⚠ sources differ — AusTraits: mericarp · GIFT: schizocarp

Growth formherb

Habitat GIFTLowland

Leaf compoundnesssimple

Leaf formlobed

Leaf shapewidely_ovate

Mycorrhiza typenon-ectomycorrhizal

Woodinessnon-woody

Physiology & chemistry6

Leaf n50.4 mg/g

Leaf p1.3 mg/g

Nitrogen fixingnon_nitrogen_fixer

Photosynthetic pathwayC3

Seed longevity index0

Specific leaf area (SLA)20.92 mm²/mg

Other traits2

Plant support typefree-standing

Seeds per fruit>1000

03Chemical composition1 compounds

Compounds documented for Malva multiflora across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").

Compound class profile1 class

Cadinane sesquiterpenoids1

Documented compounds1 total

Tissue Source Quantified only

Compound	Class	Amount	Source
Gossypol		present	LOTUS

05DNA & barcoding6 eDNA hits

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Malva multiflora has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

eDNA detections6

Countries3

06Genome at a glanceCCDB

The complete instruction manual Malva multiflora carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.

Chromosomes2n = 112 n = 56

Ploidypolyploid inferred

Chromosome records112–1262n range119median112mode4records

Chromosome-count records — grouped by value · 2n = full set, n = gamete · click a value for sources & references

2n 1122×CCDB · iber-fl

CCDB · iber-fl — Chromosome atlas of flowering plants. Darlintong, C. D. & A. P. Wylie.*(1955).

CCDB · iber-fl — Contribuiao para o conhecimento citotaxonmico das spermatophyta de Portugal. XVI. Malvaceae Queirs, M.Bol. Soc. Brot. ser. 251: 187-199(1977).

2n 1262×CCDB · iber-fl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74

CCDB · iber-fl — Cytotaxonomy of spanish plants. IV.-Dicotyledons: Caesalpinacea-Asteracea. Lve, A. & E. Kjellqvist.Lagascalia4(2): 153-211(1974).

CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 — LOEVE, A., & E. KJELLQVIST. 1974. Cytotaxonomy of Spanish plants. IV. Dicotyledons: Caesalpiniaceae- Asteraceae. Lagascalia 4: 153-211.

Ploidy records — measured levels and diploid/polyploid inferences · click for sources

polyploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale

PloiDB · genus-scale — chromEvol; reliability=1.000 ↗

07Deep time~4.31 Ma lineage

How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.

At a glance

DNA clock origin4.31 Ma TimeTree

When this lineage existed

How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.

DNA clock origin

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type9 716 records

Wild obs. + sensor9 092

Museum / vouchered462

Other162

Origin

Native71

Introduced2

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO17 040 km²

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy72% within 1 km

≤100 m 3 949≤1 km 1 002≤10 km 1 754>10 km 165

6 870 georeferenced · 2 222 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor9 092

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy62% within 1 km

≤100 m 19≤1 km 20≤10 km 22>10 km 2

63 georeferenced · 399 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence462

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions16 of 30 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
BIO-UNIPIlocation not on record	141
LDlocation not on record	73
South Kensington, GB	55
Berlin, DE	48
BDBClocation not on record	41
Wlocation not on record	25
BClocation not on record	11
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record	8
SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record	7
Brussel, BE	5
Santa Barbara, US	5
Karlsruhe, DE	5
Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record	4
MeiseBGlocation not on record	3
Paris, FR	3
Santa Cruz, US	3
San Diego, US	2
Auckland, NZ	2
Cape Town, ZA	2
Irvine, US	2
Dorset County Museumlocation not on record	1
EL PASO, US	1
Fullerton, US	1
Uniwersytet Jagiellońskilocation not on record	1
Durban, ZA	1
Guatemala City, GT	1
Muséum Henri Lecoqlocation not on record	1
Görlitz, DE	1
BSBIlocation not on record	1
BMlocation not on record	1

30 institutions · 455 of 462 vouchered records shown · 7 without an institution code

09Environmental DNA6 detections

Where the DNA of Malva multiflora was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.

Signal

Detections DNA found6

Studies independent surveys1

Countries3

Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections

Where its DNA was found

0 of 6 detections have coordinates

Open the map3 countries0

fruit trees, ripgut brome, decomposed granit…

How strong is each trace?

DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.

Modelled climatemodelled

−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C

Temperature median15.4 °C 12.2–16.3

Seasonal swing summer↔winter14.1 °C

Max temp (day)20.5 °C 17.3–22.6

Min temp (night)10.4 °C 7.50–10.9

Precipitation70.4 mm/mo 26.6–81.8

Air humidity57.7 % 57.6–63.9

Moisture balance-28.0 mm/mo -103–-20.5

Vapour deficit804 Pa 546–811

Wind speed2.20 m/s 1.40–2.90

Cloud cover41.2 % 30.0–55.0

CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 4 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche

How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.

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Malva multiflora

At a glance

Sources9 archives

Size & morphology14

Life cycle & reproduction16

Diet & foraging1

Habitat & environment14

Physiology & chemistry6

Other traits2

Compound class profile1 class

Documented compounds1 total

At a glance

Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged

At a glance

When this lineage existed

Record type9 716 records

Origin

Range

Wildobservation + sensor

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Wildobservation + sensor

Holding institutions16 of 30 geolocated

Signal

Where its DNA was found

How strong is each trace?

Modelled climatemodelled

Record type9 716 records