Fuertesimalva limensis

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by sandy-espinozaf — fig. c sandy-espinozaf, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 97533150

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by José Belem Hernández Díaz — fig. d José Belem Hernández Díaz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24559907

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by David Parra Puente — fig. e David Parra Puente, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188769588

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by Alejandro Alfredo Aguirre — fig. f Alejandro Alfredo Aguirre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187534659

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by Jordi Martínez Martínez — fig. g Jordi Martínez Martínez, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139970674

Fuertesimalva limensis, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe — fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114182267

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Native range 9 botanical countries

Native distribution of Fuertesimalva limensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Bolivia	BOL	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia	CLM
Ecuador	ECU
Peru	PER
Venezuela	VEN
Mexico Central	MXC	NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexico Gulf	MXG
Mexico Northeast	MXE
Mexico Southwest	MXS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 427 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	4.6 °C	8.9 °C	11.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	16.1 °C	19.9 °C	25.1 °C
Annual rainfall	640 mm	1,178 mm	2,105 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	25 mm	116 mm	194 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 427 research-grade observations of Fuertesimalva limensis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Malva costata C.Presl
Malva exasperata Moench
Malva laevis Moench
Malva limensis L.
Malva peruviana var. limensis (L.) Baker f.
Malvastrum limense (L.) Ball
Malvastrum peruvianum var. limense (L.) Baker f.
Urocarpidium limense (L.) Krapov.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.