Taxon: Malva neglecta Wallr.

Common names:

• common mallow   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• dwarf mallow   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• Käsepappel   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• Weg-Malve   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• skär kattost   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide F USSR; Cornucopia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Malva neglecta from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China [w. & n.]
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Lithuania; Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere in temperate regions

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. [= M. rotundifolia L.].
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. [= M. rotundifolia L.].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Savulescu, T. et al., eds; E. J. Nyárády et al., comp. 1952–1976. Flora republicii populare romine.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1968. Flora europaea. 2:251.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Malva neglecta.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Malva neglecta.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Malva neglecta.

Synonyms:

• (=) Malva rotundifolia auct.
  

Check other web resources for Malva neglecta Wallr.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Forestry Images: from www.forestryimages.org
• Fruits: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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