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Sphaeralcea

Family

Malvaceae

A genus of about sixty species, some of them herbaceous, others more or less shrubby, the majority natives of the New World, in both hemispheres, a few in S. Africa. They belong to the same group of the Mallow family as Lavatera and Abutilon.

Species articles