Biology:Malva neglecta
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malvales |
| Family: | Malvaceae |
| Genus: | Malva |
| Species: | M. neglecta
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| Binomial name | |
| Malva neglecta Wallr.[1]
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Malva neglecta is a species of plant of the family Malvaceae, native to most of the Old World except sub-Saharan Africa. It is an annual growing to 0.6 m (2 ft). It is known as common mallow in the United States and also as buttonweed, cheeseplant, cheeseweed, dwarf mallow, and roundleaf mallow.[2] This plant is often consumed as a food, with its leaves, stalks and seed all being considered edible.[3][4][5] This is especially true of the seeds, which contain 21% protein and 15.2% fat.[6]
Description
Dwarf mallow is a prostrate, downy, annual herbaceous plant, growing to approximately 60 cm. The leaves are alternate with long, strongly channeled petioles (up to 12 cm) and narrowly triangular stipules. Each leaf is reniform or with 5–7 shallow lobes, the basal leaves are 3–7 cm. The flowers are single-stalked and occur in clusters of 2–5 in the leaf axils. The flower stalks are shorter than the leaf stalks, with the leaves partially obscuring the flowers. The fruits are schizocarps, which split into 10–12 mericarps (nutlets) and are smooth and hairy.[7][8]
Distribution
- Native
- Palearctic:
- Macaronesia: Canary Islands
- Northern Africa: Algeria, Morocco
- Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
- Western Asia: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Sinai, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Turkey
- Caucasus: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia
- Soviet Middle Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Mongolia: Mongolia
- China: Xinjiang
- Indian Subcontinent: India , Pakistan
- Northern Europe: Denmark , Ireland, Norway , Sweden, United Kingdom
- Middle Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany , Hungary, Netherlands, Poland , Slovakia, Switzerland
- Southeastern Europe: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Sardinia, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania,
- Southwestern Europe: France , Portugal, Spain
Source:[1]
Uses
Leaves and young seeds can be eaten raw or cooked. Mature seeds should be cooked like rice or grains.[9]
Botanical gallery
Plant spreads along ground, leaves not large, leaves fairly uniform size (Antalya)
Spreading on rocks, similarly (Edinburgh)
Flowers, fruits and leaves
Flowers, fruits and leaves, closer
Flowers pinky with bold veins or may be pale
Paler form, hairs (visible) in centre at petal stalks
Flower much larger than calyx, green calyx with 5 broad parts, epicalyx at base formed of 3 narrow strips
Flowers may have long to very long stalks
Fruits
Fruits
Fruiting undersides, showing epicalyx of 3 narrow strips
Flowers and fruits from side showing the features above, stalks reasonably long
Hairs a mixture of stellate (star-like) and simple
Hairs a mixture of stellate (star-like) and simple
Leaf
Leaf underside
Leaf underside
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{citation | mode = cs1 | title = Malva neglecta | work = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?23305 | publisher = [[Organization:Agricultural Research ServAgricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) | access-date = 20 April 2017 }}
- ↑ "Malva neglecta". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=21836.
- ↑ Facciola S. Cornucopia – A Source Book of Edible Plants. Vista, Ca. Kampong Publications, 1990. 677 p.
- ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Wild Living with Sunny: Episode 16 - Mallow Plant S'mores. YouTube.
- ↑ "Malva neglecta Dwarf Mallow, Common mallow PFAF Plant Database". http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Malva+neglecta.
- ↑ Duke JA. CRC Handbook of Proximate Analysis Tables of Higher Plants. Boca Raton, Fl. CRC Press, 1986. 389 p.
- ↑ Stace, C.A. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles. Suffolk. ISBN 978-1-5272-2630-2.
- ↑ Rose, Francis (2006). The Wild Flower Key. London: Frederick Warne. ISBN 978-0-7232-5175-0.
- ↑ Nyerges, Christopher (2017). Foraging Washington: Finding, Identifying, and Preparing Edible Wild Foods. Guilford, CT: Falcon Guides. ISBN 978-1-4930-2534-3. OCLC 965922681. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965922681.
External links
- UniProt. "Species Malva neglecta (Common mallow)". http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/183277.
- Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). "PLANTS Profile, Malva neglecta". The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture. http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=MANE.
- "Malva neglecta". http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Malva+neglecta.
- Calflora: Information on California plants for education, research and conservation, with data contributed by public and private institutions and individuals, including the Consortium of California Herbaria, Berkeley, California: The Calflora Database, https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Taxon name (parameter 1) is required.
Wikidata ☰ Q153343 entry
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