Malope malacoidesL.

WFO wfo-0000449311 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Malope malacoides, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-30 / obs. 132843834
Malope malacoides, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. b Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 127953500
Malope malacoides, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127388900
Malope malacoides, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126922969
Malope malacoides, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. e Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121499004
Malope malacoides, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. f Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 75003286
Malope malacoides, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 71833277
Malope malacoides, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. h Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 71451110

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Malope malacoides is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Türkiye, Albania, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Sardegna
Native distribution of Malope malacoides, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Türkiye TUR ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

Flowering 43 in flower of 47 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Malope malacoides observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 43 of 47 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 19 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.

  • Malope althaeoides Moris
  • Malope asterotricha Pomel
  • Malope hispida Boiss.
  • Malope intermedia Pomel ex Batt. & Trab.
  • Malope laevigata Pomel
  • Malope malacoides f. latiorifolia Pau
  • Malope malacoides subsp. hispida (Boiss. & Reut.) Murb.
  • Malope malacoides var. intermedia (Batt.) Jahand. & Maire
  • Malope malacoides var. pomariensis Faure & Maire
  • Malope stellipilis Boiss. & Reut.
  • Malope stipulacea Cav.
  • Malope stipulacea var. asterotricha (Pomel) Batt.
  • Malope stipulacea var. hispida (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.
  • Malope stipulacea var. intermedia Batt.
  • Malope stipulacea var. laevigata (Pomel) Batt.
  • Malope stipulacea var. stellipilis (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.
  • Malope stipulacea var. tripartita (Boiss. & Reut.) Batt.
  • Malope tripartita Boiss.
  • Malva pedunculata Raf.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. 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.