New York Metropolitan Flora

Key to the genera of Malvaceae

1. Shrub; petals 4-6 cm long...Hibiscus
1. Tree; petals 0.7-1.2 cm long...Tilia

List of Malvaceae Genera

References to Malvaceae

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• Bates, D. M. 1978. Typification of Malvastrum A. Gray, one last time? Taxon 27: 495.
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• Corbet, S. A. 1979. Humidity, nectar and insect visits to flowers, with special reference to Crataegus, Tilia, and Echium. Ecol. Entomol. 4: 9-22.
• Dariev, A. S.; Vasil'ev, B. R.; Kolodyazhnyi, S. F. 1982. The characters of leaf structure as applied for the systematics of the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae). Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Lenengrad) 67(8): 1036-46. (In Russian; English summary)
• DeCandido, R. 1991. Hibiscus militaris L. (Malvaceae) new to New York State. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 118: 329.
• Egler, F. E. 1990. High-temperature effects on germination and survival of weed seeds in soil. Weed Science 38: 429-435.
• Egley, G. H. 1976. Germination of developing prickly sida seeds.
• Egley, G. H. 1991. Emergence periodicity of six summer annual weed species.
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• Fryxell, P. A. 2002. An Abutilon nomenclator (Malvaceae). Lundellia 5: 79-118.
• Guvenc, A. et.al. 2003. Root, stem and leaf anatomy of Abutilon theophrastii Medik. (Malvaceae). Pakistan J. Bot. 35: 351-359.
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• Pigott, C. D. 2002. A review of chromosome numbers in the genus Tilia (Tiliaceae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 59: 239-246.
• Poljakoff-Mayber, A. et.al. 1994. Seeds of Kosteletzkya virginica (Malvaceae): Their structure, germination, and salt tolerance: II. Germination and salt tolerance. Amer. J. Bot. 81: 54-59.
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• Ruan, C. J. et.al. 2005. Floral morphology and stigma-anther separation in gynomonoecious-gynodioecious Kosteletzkya virginica (Malvaceae). S. African J. Bot. 71: 367-373.
• Ruan, C. J. et.al. 2005. Floral traits and pollination modes in Kosteletzkya virginica (Malvaceae). Belgian J. Bot. 138: 39-46.
• Ruan, C. J. et.al. 2009. Context-dependent style curvature in Kosteletzkya virginica (Malvaceae) offers reproductive assurance under unpredictable pollinator environments. Pl. Syst. Evol. 277: 207-215.
• Ruan, C. J. et.al. 2010. Style curvature and its adaptive significance in the Malvaceae. Pl. Syst. Evol. 288: 13-23.
• Ruan, C. J. et.al. 2011. Adaptive evolution of context-dependent style curvature in some species of the Malvaceae: a molecular phylogenetic approach. Pl. Syst. Evol. 297: 57-74.
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