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Malvaceae

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Callirhoe triangulata (Leavenw.) A.Gray

Callirhoe triangulata (clustered poppymallow) is a perennial flowering plant in the Malvaceae family native to disjunct U.S. locations.

Cavanillesia platanifolia (Humb. & Bonpl.) Kunth

Cavanillesia platanifolia is a tall soft-wooded Malvaceae tree from Central and South American lowland rainforests with useful parts.

Ceiba aesculifolia (Kunth) Britten & Baker fil.

Ceiba aesculifolia is a large thorny tree ranging from Mexico to Costa Rica, found in lowland dry deciduous forests.

Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn.

Ceiba pentandra is a large tropical tree with cultivated fiber uses and recorded traditional medicinal applications.

Ceiba speciosa (A.St.-Hil., A.Juss. & Cambess.) Ravenna

Ceiba speciosa, the floss silk tree, is a drought-tolerant ornamental tree native to South America with multiple practical uses.

Commersonia bartramia (L.) Merr.

Commersonia bartramia is a variable-sized flowering tree/shrub found from southern China to northern New South Wales.

Commersonia dasyphylla Andrews

Commersonia dasyphylla, commonly kerrawang, is an ornamental Australian shrub used traditionally for basket making.

Corchorus hirsutus L.

Corchorus hirsutus L. is described with sub - round woolly capsules, ovate tomentose leaves; also noted as Corchorus americanus with certain features and Guazuma in large and small forms with woolly fruits.

Dombeya rotundifolia (Hochst.) Planch.

Dombeya rotundifolia is a spring-flowering southern African tree valued as an ornamental, for nectar, and timber.

Entelea arborescens R.Br.

This is a full botanical description of the New Zealand tree whau (Entelea arborescens), covering its traits, range, ecology, and cultivation.

Eremalche rotundifolia (A.Gray) Greene

Eremalche rotundifolia is an annual flowering plant with distinct rounded leaves and spherical night-closing pink to lilac flowers.

Firmiana simplex (L.) W.Wight

Firmiana simplex is a deciduous tree with distinct flowers and seedpods, with various practical traditional uses.

Fremontodendron californicum (Torr.) Coult.

Fremontodendron californicum is an irritant-hairy flowering evergreen native to western North America, cultivated ornamentally and used by Indigenous peoples.

Gossypium darwinii G.Watt

Gossypium darwinii (Darwin's cotton) is a Galapagos-endemic cotton species closely related to the American Gossypium barbadense.

Gossypium herbaceum L.

Gossypium herbaceum, or Levant cotton, produces short cotton fiber for textiles, and has traditional medicinal and other uses with noted gossypol toxicity.

Gossypium hirsutum L.

Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton) is the world's most widely planted and produced cotton species, native to the Americas.

Gossypium thurberi Tod.

Gossypium thurberi Tod. is a Sonoran Desert native often used as a landscape shrub or small tree, and a larval food plant for a royal moth subspecies.