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Annual, biennial or perennial herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple and palmately lobed or digitately compound. Flowers usually solitary and axillary, but often forming terminal inflorescences by reduction of the upper leaves, yellow with a dark centre or red, pink, purplish or white. Epicalyx of 5-20 bracts, rarely 0. Calyx with 5 lobes or (rarely) 5-10 teeth. Ovary 4-5-locular; each loculus with 3-many ovules. Style 5-branched. Fruit a loculicidally dehiscent capsule. Derivation of name: Greek name for the marsh mallow Worldwide: c.300 species occurring in warm temperate and tropical areas of the world Botswana: 29 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| allenii Sprague & Hutch. | N | Description, Image |
| articulatus Hochst. ex A. Rich. | N | Description, Image |
| caesius Garcke | N,SE | Description, Image |
| calyphyllus Cav. | SE | Description, Image |
| cannabinus L. | N | Description, Image |
| diversifolius Jacq. subsp. rivularis (Bremek. & Oberm.) Exell | N | Description, Image |
| dongolensis Delile | N | Description, Image |
| engleri K. Schum. | Description, Image | |
| kirkii Mast. | N | |
| lobatus (Murray) Kuntze | Description, Image | |
| lunarifolius Willd. | Description, Image | |
| mastersianus Hiern | N | |
| mechowii Garcke | ||
| meyeri Harv. subsp. meyeri | Description, Image | |
| micranthus L.f. | N,SW,SE | Description, Image |
| mutatus N.E.Br. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| nigricaulis Baker | Description, Image | |
| ovalifolius (Forssk.) Vahl | Description, Image | |
| panduriformis Burm. f. | Description, Image | |
| platycalyx Mast. | ||
| praeteritus R.A. Dyer | N | Description, Image |
| pusillus Thunb. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| rhabdotospermus Garcke | N | Image |
| schinzii Gürke | N,SE | Description, Image |
| seineri Ulbr. ex Engl. | ||
| sidiformis Baill. | N | Description, Image |
| subreniformis Burtt Davy | SE | |
| trionum L. | N,SE | Description, Image |
| vitifolius L. subsp. vitifolius | N | Description, Image |
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