Malvastrum corchorifolium(Desr.) Britton ex Small

false mallow

WFO wfo-0000449489 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Malvastrum corchorifolium, photographed by Neptalí Ramírez Marcial
fig. a Neptalí Ramírez Marcial, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-09-21 / obs. 5579699
Malvastrum corchorifolium, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. b Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75740664
Malvastrum corchorifolium, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. c Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75740726
Malvastrum corchorifolium, photographed by Alison Northup
fig. d Alison Northup, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75741063

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
878373
Filed as
Malvastrum corchorifolium (Desr.) Britton ex Small
Det. by
L. J. Dorr 1994-01-01
Collected
P. Acevedo-Rodríguez 1987-08-19
Origin
VI
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Malvastrum corchorifolium is native: Alabama, Florida, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southeast, Bahamas, Belize, Cayman Is., Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Southwest Caribbean, Turks-Caicos Is., Windward Is. AlabamaFloridaMexico NortheastMexico SoutheastBelizeCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPuerto RicoSouthwest Caribbean BahamasCayman Is.Leeward Is.Netherlands AntillesTurks-Caicos Is.Windward Is.
Native distribution of Malvastrum corchorifolium, 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
Bahamas BAH SOUTHERN AMERICA
Belize BLZ
Cayman Is. CAY
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Leeward Is. LEE
Netherlands Antilles NLA
Nicaragua NIC
Puerto Rico PUE
Southwest Caribbean SWC
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Windward Is. WIN
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Southeast MXT

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.

Also published as 4 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 betulina Desr.
  • Malva corchorifolia Desr.
  • Malva scoparia Jacq.
  • Malvastrum rugelii S.Watson

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.

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