Malva

Accepted species 64 Documented here 26 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 64 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Malva sylvestris L. 3,241 documented
Malva neglecta Wallr. 1,863 documented
Malva parviflora L. 1,167 documented
Malva moschata L. 1,145 documented
Malva arborea (L.) Webb & Berthel. 1,027 documented
Malva thuringiaca (L.) Vis. 610 documented
Malva multiflora (Cav.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 594 documented
Malva alcea L. 305 documented
Malva pusilla Sm. 271 documented
Malva assurgentiflora (Kellogg) M.F.Ray 171 documented
Malva nicaeensis All. 145 documented
Malva trimestris (L.) Salisb. 132 documented
Malva verticillata L. 54 documented
Malva setigera K.F.Schimp. & Spenn. 52 documented
Malva cretica Cav. 38 documented
Malva subovata (DC.) Molero & J.M.Monts. 38 documented
Malva tournefortiana L. 37 documented
Malva punctata (All.) Alef. 36 documented
Malva hispanica L. 35 documented
Malva weinmanniana (Besser ex Rchb.) Conran 23 documented
Malva erecta Gilib. 22 documented
Malva unguiculata (Desf.) Alef. 22 documented
Malva olbia (L.) Alef. 10 documented
Malva preissiana Miq. 9 documented
Malva pacifica M.F.Ray 8 documented
Malva acerifolia (Cav.) Alef. 4 documented
Malva lusitanica (L.) Valdés 2 below the evidence gate
Malva aegyptia L. 1 below the evidence gate
Malva × clementii (Cheek) Stace 0 below the evidence gate
Malva × columbretensis (Juan & M.B.Crespo) Juan & M.B.Crespo 0 below the evidence gate
Malva × inodora Ponert 0 below the evidence gate
Malva adulterina Wallr. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva aethiopica C.J.S.Davis 0 below the evidence gate
Malva agrigentina (Tineo) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva arbosii Sennen 0 below the evidence gate
Malva bucharica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Malva cachemiriana (Cambess.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva caschmireana (Cambess.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva cavanillesiana Raizada 0 below the evidence gate
Malva durieui Spach ex Fenzl 0 below the evidence gate
Malva egarensis Cadevall 0 below the evidence gate
Malva excisa Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva flava (Desf.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva intermedia Boreau 0 below the evidence gate
Malva leonardii I.Riedl 0 below the evidence gate
Malva lindsayi (Moran) M.F.Ray 0 below the evidence gate
Malva litoralis Dethard. ex Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva longiflora (Boiss. & Reut.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva ludwigii (L.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva maroccana (Batt. & Trab.) Verloove & Lambinon 0 below the evidence gate
Malva microphylla (Baker f.) Molero & J.M.Monts. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva oblongifolia (Boiss.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva occidentalis (S.Watson) M.F.Ray 0 below the evidence gate
Malva oxyloba Boiss. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva pamiroalaica Iljin 0 below the evidence gate
Malva phoenicea (Vent.) Alef. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva qaiseri Abedin 0 below the evidence gate
Malva stenopetala (Coss. & Durieu ex Batt.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva stipulacea Cav. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva valdesii (Molero & J.M.Monts.) Soldano, Banfi & Galasso 0 below the evidence gate
Malva vidalii (Pau) Molero & J.M.Monts. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva waziristanensis Blatt. 0 below the evidence gate
Malva xizangensis Y.S.Ye, L.Fu & D.X.Duan 0 below the evidence gate
Malva zoernigii Fleisch. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.