Malvastrum

Accepted species 24 Documented here 6 Family Malvaceae

Accepted species 24 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
Malvastrum coromandelianum (L.) Garcke 819 documented
Malvastrum americanum (L.) Torr. 170 documented
Malvastrum aurantiacum Walp. 39 documented
Malvastrum hispidum (Pursh) Hochr. 15 documented
Malvastrum bicuspidatum (S.Watson) Rose 5 documented
Malvastrum corchorifolium (Desr.) Britton ex Small 4 documented
Malvastrum interruptum K.Schum. 1 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum amblyphyllum R.E.Fr. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum boyuibeanum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum chillagoense Domin 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum cristobalianum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum deflexum (Turcz.) Stapf ex Fourc. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum fryxellii (S.R.Hill) Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum grandiflorum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum guatemalense Standl. & Steyerm. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum hillii Fryxell, León de la Luz & M.Domínguez 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum ionthocarpum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum multicuspidatum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum pucarense Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum scoparioides Ulbr. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum spiciflorum (Hassl.) Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum tomentosum (L.) S.R.Hill 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum trifidum Krapov. 0 below the evidence gate
Malvastrum uniapiculatum Krapov. 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.