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Royal Mallow

Malva trimestris

Royal Mallow (Malva trimestris) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · India · Resized

Scientific name
Malva trimestris
Family
Malvaceae, order Malvales
Group
Plant

Soft pink cups veined like silk.

  • Spot it Lobed leaves and funnel flowers with dark veins.
  • Home Gardens in the cool season.
  • Food web Bees visit the flowers.
  • Why it matters Gives bees nectar in the cool season, boosting winter pollination.

Read more: Malva trimestris on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • IndiaDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2018.[20]

Sources

  1. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  2. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  4. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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