Plant Details

Accepted name:: Malva parviflora L. [Malvaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
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) 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) 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 Province, 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)
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)
least mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
little mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) 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	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014) Pl. Res. of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Valley, Mexico (Casas et al., 2001)
malva de campo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) 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) 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-branca	Other	Med. Pl. Traded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Leitãoa et al., 2014)
mauve d'egypte	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mauve à petites fleurs	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
molocha	Other	Wild Edible Pls. of Paphos & Larnaca of Cyprus (Della et al., 2006)
molochoua	Other	Wild Edible Pls. 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)
quesitos	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
ring-leaf mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
small mallow	Other	SEPASAL Database (RBG, Kew, 1999)
small-flower mallow	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
small-flowered mallow	Other	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)
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 Pls. 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)
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.	Ethnophytomed. Against Diabetes, SE Asia (Marwat et al., 2014) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) 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 (Leitãoa 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. for Diabetes in C America (Giovannini et al., 2016) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Jordan (Oran, 1998) Med. Pl. in Talagang, Punjab Province (Nazish Rehman et al., 2017) 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 Province, 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 Pls. 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)
Malva parviﬂora L.	Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008)

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