Dear All Welcome you all to the coming Malvaceae Week. To make this coming week from 05.09.11 to 11.09.11 a great success I need your best wishes and Co-operation in terms of uploading of maximum Identified or unidentified pics of plants from family Malvaceae. Here I am sharing some information about the family. Your suggestions to improve the event are Most Welcome. Hope for the maximum contribution from all
*Malvaceae Also called as Mallow family is a dicotyledonous family comprising about 82 genera and 1500 species, distributed * *almost throughout the world and particularly abundant in tropics. * * * *In India, this family is represented by 25 genera and about 110 species.These include Annual or perennial herbs to shrubs or small trees.* * * * * *Some important floral characters of the family are:* * * * * *Plant parts often mucilaginous, leaves stipulated, young stem/ branches often with stellate trichomes* * * *Flowers axillary, solitary, or in fascicles, racemes or panicles, actinomorphic, usually bisexual, pentamerous. * * * *Calyx, free or connate, valvate aestivation* * * *Corolla free, adnate at the base to the staminal tube and falling off with it, twisted; petals 5. * * * *Stamens usually numerous, monadelphous to form staminal tube which at apex divided into numerous filaments* * * *Carpels 1 to many, usually in a single whorl, placentation axile; style usually branched into as many as the number of carpels or * * * *sometimes twice the number of carpels * * * *Fruit a dry capsule or schizocarp, rarely baccate, usually dehiscent. * * * *Seeds with a little endosperm* * * *Genera represented in India include Hibiscus, Pavonia, Thespesia, Kydia, Gossypium, Alcea, Malva, Abutilon, **Malvastrum, * * * *Malvaviscus, Sida, Urena, Abelmoschus, Sidastrum,Herissantia, Wissadula, Modiola, Anoda, Decaschistia, Nayariophyton, Fioria, * * * *Senra, Lavatera, Althaea and Malachra* * * *Hibiscus and pavonia are large sp represented by about 300 sp and 200 sp worldwide* * * *Some important Plant include Gossypium sp (Cotton yielding), Abelmoschus esculentus (Vegetable) Thespesia populnea* * * *(Avenue Tree), Hibiscus sp, Alcea rosea (Ornamental) etc. * * * *Thanks* *-- * Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
