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• Type: (not designated).

Bentham, G. (30 May 1863), Flora Australiensis 1: 187 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 13 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (December 1889), Second Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 24 [secondary reference]

pro parte taxonomic synonym: Malva L. legitimate

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 53 [secondary reference]

common name: Mallow [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 57 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 374 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Adapted from Malva, mallow."

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 555 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "Adapted from Malva, mallow."

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 221 [secondary reference]

Borssum Waalkes, J. van (1966), Malesian Malvaceae revisited. Blumea 14(1): 151-155 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: See notes by Fryxell & Hill, Taxon 26 (1977) 332–336 on previous lectotype [of which there are 5]; Malvastrum spicatum (L.) A. Gray

Hill, S.R. (1981), Brittonia 32(1): 464-483 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 144 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Malvaceae. Flora of Central Australia: 218 [secondary reference]

Hill, S.R. (1982), Rhodora: 159-264 [secondary reference]

Ross, E.M. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Malvaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 69-70 [secondary reference]

Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M., Chaloner, W.G., Demoulin, V., Grolle, R., Hawkesworth, D.L., Nicolson, D.H., Silva, P.C., Stafleu, F.A., Voss, E.G. & McNeill, J. (ed.) (1988), International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, Berlin, 1988. Regnum Vegetabile 118: 234 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1990), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales 1: 325-326 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Malvaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 223-224 [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 111 [secondary reference]

Mitchell, A.S. & Norris, E.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2000), Malvaceae. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 1: 325 [secondary reference]

Cooper, W.E. & Cooper, W.T. (2004), Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest: 279 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Malva sect. Malvastrum DC. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA, Qld (native and naturalised), NSW (native and naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 519 [secondary reference]

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