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From Malva and its allies it differs in having short or capitate stigmas on the style-branches rather than longitudinal stigmas, and a single whorl of carpels. From Malvaviscus it differs in having a dry rather than a baccate fr., and in other characters. Herbs and undershrubs of differing habit, sometimes low and diffuse and sometimes tall : lvs. various, entire, cordate or lobed : fls. scarlet, orange or yellow, short- peduncled or nearly sessile, axillary or in terminal spikes; calyx- like involucel wanting or of 2 or 3 bracts; calyx 5-cleft; petals emarginate or entire; styles 5 or more: carpels few to many, 1-ovuled, nearly or quite in- dehiscent and falling away from the axis at maturity.—Some 70-80 or more species, in Amer. and S. Afr. The garden species are perennials of easy cult., blooming in the hot weather.
From Malva and its allies it differs in having short or capitate stigmas on the style-branches rather than longitudinal stigmas, and a single whorl of carpels. From Malvaviscus it differs in having a dry rather than a baccate fr., and in other characters. Herbs and undershrubs of differing habit, sometimes low and diffuse and sometimes tall : lvs. various, entire, cordate or lobed : fls. scarlet, orange or yellow, short- peduncled or nearly sessile, axillary or in terminal spikes; calyx- like involucel wanting or of 2 or 3 bracts; calyx 5-cleft; petals emarginate or entire; styles 5 or more: carpels few to many, 1-ovuled, nearly or quite in- dehiscent and falling away from the axis at maturity.—Some 70-80 or more species, in Amer. and S. Afr. The garden species are perennials of easy cult., blooming in the hot weather.
M. Gilliesii. Baker. More or less procumbent: lvs. hairy, palmately divided: fls. 1 in. or more across, bright red. S. Amer.— M. splendidum, once listed, is probably M. Thurberi var. laxiflorum, Gray (M. splendidum, Kell.), in S. Utah to S. Calif. Shrub, becoming 12 ft. or more, gray tomentose: lvs. roundish and mostly subcordate, 3-cleft or obscurely 3-5-lobed: fls. rosy pink, fragrant, rather loosely paniculate.
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