Plant Details

Accepted name:: Malva parviflora L. [Malvaceae]
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Source:: World Checklist of Vascular Plants
Infraspecies:: 2

Malva parviflora var. parviflora

Malva parviflora var. velutina (J.A.Schmidt) A.Chev.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
agriomóloha	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
ahala	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
cheeseweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
cheeseweed mallow	Other	Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
egyptian mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
gogisag	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
golio	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
guragped	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
ijongilanga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kasie	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kasieblaar	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kasies	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
khabiza	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
khobaiza	Other	Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
khubaiza	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
khubbayz	Other	Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994)
khubbayza	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)
khubeizah	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
kiesieblaar	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kleinbl?tige malve	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
kleinblütige malve	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
least mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
little mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
malba	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
mallow	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
malva	Other	Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. in La Paz, Bolivia (Macía et al., 2005) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
malva arbórea	Other	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
malva blanca	Other	Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
malva de campo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
malva de castilla	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
malva de quesitos	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
malva lisa	Other	Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
malva parviflora whole	Other	Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024)
malva-branca	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014)
mauve d'egypte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mauve parviflore	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
mauve à petites fleurs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
molocha	Other	Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
molochoua	Other	Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
molóha	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
molóhes	Other	Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
mosala-suping	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
panirak	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
qena	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
quesillo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
quesitos	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
ring-leaf mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
small mallow	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
small-flower mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
small-flowered mallow	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
small-flowered marshmallow	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
smallflower mallow	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
sonchal	Other	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
sonchal/ kotri saag	Other	Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
sonchali	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
soncheli	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
thibapitsa	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
tikamotse	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
umajikanelanga	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
unomolwana	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
whor	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
whorl-flower mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
whorled mallow	Other	GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024)
μολόχα	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
μολόχες	Other	Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
ةزيبخ	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
خبيزه	Other	Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
Leaves		Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016)
Leaves, Stem		Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
Whole plant		Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017)
leaves, Stems, aerial part		Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
tender shoot, leaf, flower		Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013)
tender tops, leaf, flower		Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016)
leaves, flowers, whole plant		Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020)
Leaf, flower		Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017)
Whole plant		Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019)
leaf		Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009)
Branch, flower		Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016)
aerial part		Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. in La Paz, Bolivia (Macía et al., 2005)
leaves, roots		Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Althaea parviflora (L.) Alef. Oesterr. Bot. Z. 12: 261 (1862).
Malva rotundifolia subsp. parviflora (L.) Ball J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 16: 378 (1878).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Malva palviflora L.	Consv. of Indonesian Med. Pl. (Cahyaningsih, 2020)
Malva parviflora	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Malva parviflora L.	Ethnobot. of Med. Pl. in La Paz, Bolivia (Macía et al., 2005) Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) GRIN-Global Taxonomy (USDA, 2024) Global Substance Registration System (GSRS) (FDA/NCATS, 2024) Guía de Pl. Med. en Valle de México (Fonseca Chávez et al., 2020) Handbook of Arabian Med. Pl. (Ghazanfar, 1994) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020) Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitão et al., 2014) Med. Pl. Use: Monasteries on Cyprus (Lardos & Heinrich, 2013) Med. Pl. Used by Women in Mecca (Alqethami et al., 2017) Med. Pl. at Markets in S Ecuador (Tinitana et al., 2016) Med. Pl. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. from Tlanchinol, Mexico (Andrade-Cetto, 2009) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sardinian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Sardinia & Sicily: Sicilian Subset (Leonti et al., 2009) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) Med. Pl. in the Medit.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Med. and Magical Pl. of S Africa (Arnold et al., 2002) Modern Pl. Use in Monasteries on Cyprus, 2006-2012 (Lardos, 2016) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999) SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 2020) SOTWP 2016: PROTA (2015) SOTWP 2016: Useful Pl. & Fungi Project (2015) Trad. Med. Pl. of Al-Rass, Saudi Arabia (El-Ghazali et al., 2010) Trad. Use of Ethnomed. Pl. of Saudi Arabia (Aati et al., 2019) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) Wild Edible Pl. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)

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