Taxon: Malva parviflora L.

Common names:

• cheeseweed   (Source: F CalifJep ) – English
  
• Egyptian mallow   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• least mallow   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• little mallow   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ring-leaf mallow   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small-flower mallow   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• whorl-flower mallow   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• whorled mallow   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• khubeizah   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• mauve à petites fleurs   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• mauve d'Egypte   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• kleinblütige Malve   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• malva   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• malva de campo   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• malva de Castilla   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• quesillo   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• quesitos   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide E. J. Ryder, 1999)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Kuwait Pl)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide F NGalicia)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Malva parviflora from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Croatia; Greece; Italy; Malta
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Cufodontis, G. 1953–1972. Enumeratio plantarum aethiopiae: Spermatophyta.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• 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.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Macbride, J. F. et al., eds. 1936–1971. Flora of Peru.; new ser. 1980-
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Ryder, E. J. 1999. Lettuce, endive and chicory. Crop Prod. Sci. Hort. 9:134. [mentions].
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wiggins, I. L. & D. M. Porter. 1971. Flora of the Galapagos islands.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Malva parviflora.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Malva parviflora.

Check other web resources for Malva parviflora L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Fruit: 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

More:

• 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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