Malvaceae

Family: Malvaceae

Popular name: The Mallow Family

Taxonomic Position (according to Cronquist)

Kingdom        : Plantae

Division          :Magnoliophyta

Class               :Magnoliopsida

Subclass         :Dilleniidae

Order             :Malvales

Family            :Malvaceae

 

Identifying Characters of the Family

 

  1. Presence of stellate or tuffed hairs on the vegetative parts
  2. Presence of mucilage cavities
  3. Stipulate, palmately lobed leaves
  4. Stamens monoadelphous
  5. Stamens epipetalous
  6. Pollen spiny, multiporate
  7. Placentation is axile
  8. Fruit capsule or schzocarpic

 

Table Economically important plants of Malvaceae Family

 

Serial

No.

English nameBangla nameScientific  namePlant parts usedUsefulness
1Comilla Cotton/Tree cottonKarpusTulaGossypium arboretum L.FruitCotton
2Levant cottonKarpusTulaG. herbaceum L.FruitCotton

 

3American cotton/upland cottonKarpusTulaG. hirsutum L.FruitCotton
4China cotton/

Kidney  cotton

Kidney TulaG. barbadense var. acuminatum (Roxb. Ex G Don)FruitCotton
5Kenaf HempMesta PatHibiscus cannabinus L.StemFiber
6RoselleMesta Pat/ chukurH. sabdariffa L.Stem, leafFiber  vegetable
7Prickly HibiscusShata-kantaH. radiatus L.StemFiber vegetable
8China roseJobaH. rosa-sinensis L.FlowerOrnamental

 

9OkraDheroshAbelmoschus esculentus (L.) MoenchFruitVegetable
10Whorled MalvaNapashakhMalva verticillata L.LeafVegetable

 

 

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