Small-flowered mallow

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Small-flowered mallow
Small-flowered mallow (Malva pusilla)

Small-flowered mallow ( Malva pusilla )

Systematics
Eurosiden II
Order : Mallow-like (Malvales)
Family : Mallow family (Malvaceae)
Subfamily : Malvoideae
Genre : Mallow ( Malva )
Type : Small-flowered mallow
Scientific name
Malva pusilla
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The Malva pusilla ( Malva pusilla ) is a plant from the genus of mallow ( Malva ) within the family of the Malvaceae (Malvaceae).

description

illustration
Fruit with partial fruits. The partial fruits are pitted-wrinkled on the back, mostly hairy and their edges are sharply edged.

Vegetative characteristics

The small-flowered mallow is an annual herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 8 to 30 centimeters. The stem leaves are lobed.

Generative characteristics

The flowering period extends from June to September. The flowers are clustered in the leaf axils. The hermaphroditic flowers are radial symmetry . The calyx lobes have a frizzy edge. The petals are whitish, weakly edged and with a length of 4 to 5 millimeters as long as the calyx.

The fruit stalks are curved downwards. The partial fruits are wrinkled and have sharp edges.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 42, 76.

ecology

The small-flowered mallow is a therophyte , hemicryptophyte and a half-rosette plant .

There is insect pollination and self-pollination instead. The seeds are long-lived and spread through humans, velcro spread and digestive spread .

Occurrence

The small-flowered mallow grows on dry to moderately dry and often patchy ruderal areas such as steps and roadsides, in vineyards and on corn fields. The small-flowered mallow is salt-tolerant. In Central Europe it is a character species of the Polygonion avicularis association, but also occurs in societies of the Sisymbrion association or rarely in those of the order Polygono-Chenopodietalia.

In Germany, the small-flowered mallow is an archaeophyte . It occurs scattered in northern Thuringia , southern Saxony-Anhalt , eastern Brandenburg , northern Lower Saxony , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and southern Schleswig-Holstein , rarely in western Bavaria and near Passau, in northern Baden-Württemberg , eastern Rhineland-Palatinate , Hesse , southern Thuringia , northern Saxony-Anhalt and western Brandenburg as well as rare and inconsistent in northern and western North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony and southern Lower Saxony.

literature

  • Eckehart J. Jäger, Klaus Werner (Ed.): Excursion flora from Germany . Founded by Werner Rothmaler. 10th edited edition. tape 4 : Vascular Plants: Critical Volume . Elsevier, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Munich / Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8274-1496-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Oberdorfer : Plant-sociological excursion flora for Germany and neighboring areas. 8th edition. Stuttgart, Verlag Eugen Ulmer, 2001. ISBN 3-8001-3131-5 . Page 659.
  2. ↑ a b Small-flowered mallow . In: BiolFlor, the database of biological-ecological characteristics of the flora of Germany.

Web links

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