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Malvastrum americanum (Indian Valley false mallow)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Malvastrum americanum var. stellatum

Attributes

Leaf Type [1]  Evergreen
Lifespan [2]  Annual/Perennial
Structure [1]  Shrub

Protected Areas

Predators

Aonidomytilus albus (cassava scale)[3]
Eriococcus curassavicus[3]
Heliopetes laviana (Laviana White-Skipper)[4]
Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale)[3]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Augochloropsis callichroa[5]
Heliopetes arsalte[5]
Urbanus dorantes (Lilac-banded Longtail)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 2USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
♦ 3Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Ramirez, N., and Y. Brito. 1992. Pollination Biology in a Palm Swamp Community in the Venezuelan Central Plains. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 110:277-302.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0